- Planning authority
- City and County of Swansea
- Postcodes
- SA6, SA7
- Noon sun, 21 March
- About 38°
- Noon sun, 21 December
- About 15°
- Planning plan
- LDP
- County
- West Glamorgan
The kinds of plot we look at in Clydach
Not every plot we consider is a garden. Garage courts, lock-up blocks, old workshops and yards behind houses in Clydach can sometimes take a new home, particularly where a vehicle access already exists. These sites raise their own questions, such as who owns the access, whether anyone else has rights over it and what the ground was used for before. Alongside them, we consider long back gardens, wide side gardens, corner plots and bungalows on large plots, each judged on its own access, space and planning position.
Planning and light in Clydach
If your plot is in Clydach, the application will normally go to the City and County of Swansea, which judges it against its LDP and the council’s supplementary planning guidance and Technical Advice Note 12 on design. Those documents set local expectations on design, parking, garden sizes and how new homes should relate to the street, while PPW sets the wider national framework. For an address in SA6 and SA7 or nearby, the exact postcode also tells us which flood maps, sewer records and tree orders to check. Where it helps, we ask the council for pre-application advice before anything is drawn in detail.
What we can do in Clydach
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 Clydach, 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 Clydach
Who decides planning for a new home in a garden in Clydach?
The decision is made by the City and County of Swansea, 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.
Can I team up with my neighbours in Clydach?
Yes, and it can make a weak plot workable. Combining adjoining gardens can allow one shared access and a better layout. Each owner keeps their house, and a collaboration agreement sets out decisions, costs and how value is shared through equalisation. Every household should have its own solicitor.
How do you stop a new home in Clydach overshadowing the neighbours?
By testing the layout against the sun and the council’s guidance. At midday on 21 March the sun in Clydach 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.
Can you build a house in my back garden in Clydach 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.