- Planning authority
- Havant Borough Council
- Postcodes
- PO11
- Noon sun, 21 March
- About 39°
- Shadow from a 5 m eaves line
- About 6.1 m
- Planning plan
- Local Plan
- County
- Hampshire
Before you decide in Hayling Island
For a corner or side plot in Hayling Island, the decision rests with Havant Borough Council. Its starting point is the council’s Local Plan, read alongside national policy and any design guidance it has adopted, which usually covers how a new home should line up with, space itself from and match the height of the houses around it.
Our designs begin with those documents rather than a standard house type. Where it helps, we seek pre-application advice, so the home we propose answers local expectations before an application goes in.
The next steps, locally
You stay in control after the appraisal. Selling means heads of terms in writing, read by your solicitor, before anything is signed. Building means survey and design ahead of a written quote. Whichever you choose, Havant Borough Council receives the application and asks your neighbours for comments, and a decision on a single home often takes a few months, longer if the design needs amending.
Free plot appraisal
We look at your plot on maps, the title plan and street views, check planning history nearby and talk it through with you. If a home beside yours looks possible we visit. No cost, no obligation.
Choose your route
Sell the plot outright, sell it subject to planning, or grant an option while you keep your house. Or keep the land and have us design, get planning for and build a new home on it.
Design and planning
We draw a home that sits in the street rather than fighting it, usually take pre-application advice, and submit the application. The council consults neighbours and decides; small schemes often take a few months.
Sale or build
For a sale, your solicitor handles the transfer of part and any release from your lender. For a build, a written quote follows design and survey, then we build, arrange the warranty and hand over.
Worth checking early
- A new drive close to a junction may not be acceptable to the highway authority, which can force a different layout.
- Corners kept open by design can be harder to build on than they look; character can matter more than space.
- Losing a side garden or drive changes how your house works day to day, from parking to getting bins round the back.
Hayling Island: questions to ask
Which body approves a new home on a side plot in Hayling Island?
The planning decision belongs to Havant Borough Council. It checks the proposal against the council’s Local Plan, national policy and its own design guidance, and asks neighbours and the highway authority for their views first. Our role is to prepare and submit a strong application; approval or refusal is the council’s call alone.
Can you build a home beside my house in Hayling Island for my family?
Yes. A home next door can give a parent or grown-up child their own front door while keeping them close. You keep the land; we draw the house, apply for permission, build it and arrange the structural warranty or other cover lenders accept. The written quote comes after design and survey.
Is my Hayling Island side garden wide enough for a new house?
It depends on how wide homes are in your street, the gaps between them, whether the new home would be attached or detached and what the council’s design guidance says. There’s no single minimum width. We measure your plot and the street as part of a free appraisal.
Can I attach a new home to my house in Hayling Island?
Yes, where it suits the street, for example on the end of a semi-detached pair. It needs planning permission as a separate home, fire and sound separation under Building Regulations, and possibly a party wall agreement. We check whether attached or detached fits your road better.
Other options in Hayling Island
- Large rear gardens
- Planning permission for a garden plot
- Tandem and landlocked plots
- Garage courts and yards
- Planning promotion for your garden plot
- Build a home for family in your garden