- Planning authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council
- Postcodes
- CF44
- Noon sun, 21 March
- About 38°
- Noon sun, 21 December
- About 15°
- Planning plan
- LDP
- County
- Mid Glamorgan
The kinds of plot we look at in Aberdare
Land that’s hard to reach isn’t automatically a lost cause. In Aberdare, as anywhere, a plot behind houses with narrow, shared or no access can sometimes be opened up by combining it with a neighbour’s garden, using an existing shared drive, or buying the strip of land that controls the way in. Ransom strips and rights of way need careful legal checks, and the council will look hard at a tandem layout where one house sits directly behind another. We’ll tell you honestly whether the access problem can be solved.
Planning and light in Aberdare
Planning applications for new homes in gardens in Aberdare are decided by Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council. Its decisions follow the council’s Local Development Plan (LDP) and Planning Policy Wales (PPW). Officers usually focus on access, privacy, daylight, the character of the street and the garden left for both homes. Many councils use separation guides of around 21 metres between facing back windows and around 12 to 15 metres between a back window and a blank side wall, but Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council’s own guidance decides. We prepare the application with care; the decision is always the council’s.
What we can do in Aberdare
Sell or partner
- Sell part of your garden
- Sell subject to planning
- Garden plot option agreement
- Planning promotion for your garden plot
- Joint venture on your garden plot
- Combine gardens with your neighbours
Design and build
- Build a new home in your garden
- Planning permission for a garden plot
- Build a home for family in your garden
- Plot feasibility and design
By plot type
- Large rear gardens
- Corner and side plots
- Garage courts and yards
- Tandem and landlocked plots
- Bungalows on large plots
What happens next
If you’d like to talk it through first, call us. There’s no script and no hard sell. We’ll ask a few questions about your plot in Aberdare, explain how the free appraisal works and answer what we can on the spot. If it makes sense to go further, we’ll agree the next step together; if it doesn’t, you’ve lost nothing.
Questions about garden plots in Aberdare
Can I sell part of my garden in Aberdare?
Often, yes, if the plot is big enough, has a workable access and stands a reasonable chance of planning. We buy suitable plots directly, with or without planning, subject to survey, title and contract, or agree a sale that only completes if Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council grants permission. If planning is refused on a conditional sale, you keep your land.
Can you build a house in my back garden in Aberdare that I keep?
Yes. Our design and build route covers the survey, design, planning application, Building Regulations, construction and handover, while the land and the new home stay yours. You can sell it, let it or use it for family. You’ll get a written quote once the design and survey are done, and any earlier price range is a guide only.
How do you stop a new home in Aberdare overshadowing the neighbours?
By testing the layout against the sun and the council’s guidance. At midday on 21 March the sun in Aberdare is about 38° up, so a 5 m eaves line casts a shadow of roughly 6.3 m; in December it is far lower. Spacing, roof height, orientation and single-storey designs all help keep light where it belongs.
Who decides planning for a new home in a garden in Aberdare?
The decision is made by Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, using the council’s Local Development Plan (LDP), PPW and its own design guidance. Small schemes are usually decided by planning officers, and national and council rules set out when one can go to a planning committee instead. We prepare and submit the application and answer the council’s questions, but we can’t promise the outcome.