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Planning promotion for garden plots in Crosby

Two or three neighbouring back gardens in Crosby can make a stronger promotion site than one garden on its own. Put together, they may allow one shared access, a better layout and new homes set further from existing windows, and the fixed costs of the application are spread across a bigger scheme.

That is where promotion is most at home. For a single garden it can still work, particularly if the plot is generous and has its own route in from the road, but we’ll tell you honestly if a sale subject to planning or an option suits your land better. The free appraisal covers that question.

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White architectural model of a house at the front of a plot with two new homes at the end of the garden
Planning authority
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
Postcodes
L23, L38
Noon sun, 21 March
About 37°
Shadow from a 5 m eaves line
About 6.8 m
Planning plan
Local Plan
County
Merseyside

Crosby: light, access and policy

Shadow and distance are often why a combined site in Crosby works better than a single garden. With the sun at about 37° at noon in late March, the shadow from a 5 m eaves line reaches roughly 6.8 m, so a home squeezed into one narrow garden can end up too close to the houses it backs onto.

Joining gardens with neighbours lets new homes sit towards the middle of a wider site, away from existing windows, with one shared access. Promotion suits that kind of scheme, because planning costs are spread across more land and the site is sold as one well-planned whole. Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council still makes the decision.

Section showing noon sun and shadows in Crosby: about 37 degrees on 21 March and 13 degrees on 21 December21 m21 Mar, noon: sun 37°, shadow 6.8 m21 Dec, noon: sun 13°, shadow 21.5 mExistingNew home
Noon sun in Crosby on 21 March sits about 37° above the horizon, so a typical two-storey eaves line (about 5 m) throws a shadow of roughly 6.8 m. In December the sun is only about 13° up and shadows stretch much further. Drawn for a garden facing north, where it matters most.

How we’d take it forward in Crosby

Nothing is signed until you’ve seen the heads of terms and taken advice. Call us or use the form with your Crosby address, a rough idea of where the garden runs, and whether neighbours might join in. We’ll check the title, access and planning history first, then tell you plainly whether promotion, a sale subject to planning or another route suits your plot.

  1. Free plot appraisal

    We check your title plan, access, the surrounding gardens and the policies in the council’s Local Plan as a desktop exercise, then talk it through with you. If it looks viable, we visit. No cost and no obligation.

  2. Heads of terms

    We set out the deal in writing: the term, how our fee works, the cap on planning costs we can recover, the minimum price, the marketing approach and the cap on your reasonable legal fees that we cover.

  3. Agreement signed

    Your solicitor and ours turn the heads of terms into a promotion agreement. It’s usually protected by an entry on your title, and if your house is mortgaged, your lender is asked to consent early.

  4. We apply for planning

    We commission the surveys and drawings, take pre-application advice where it helps, submit the application and deal with the council’s questions. You pay nothing at this stage, and the decision is the council’s.

Worth checking early

  • On a single small plot, fixed costs and our fee take a bigger share of the sale price than on a larger site.
  • Planning may be refused. You keep your land and owe nothing for planning, but the months spent can’t be given back.
  • You’ll live next to whatever is built, so the layout, windows and new boundary affect your house too.

Crosby: questions to ask

Who decides a planning application for a garden plot in Crosby?

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council decides it, using the council’s Local Plan and national policy in the NPPF. Nobody can promise the outcome. Under promotion we prepare and submit the application at our cost and deal with the council’s questions, but the decision is the council’s, and it can grant, refuse or ask for changes.

What happens if planning is refused for my garden in Crosby?

You keep your land and owe nothing for planning, because our costs are only recovered from a sale with planning. Within the term we may revise the scheme and reapply, or appeal if the grounds are strong. If there’s no realistic route to permission, the agreement ends.

How is a promoted garden plot in Crosby sold?

After permission, an agent agreed with you markets the plot to builders, developers and self-builders. You see the offers and approve the buyer. The plot can’t be sold below the agreed minimum price without your written consent, and any offer from us has to stand up against the open market.

How long does planning promotion take for a garden in Crosby?

It usually takes longer than a straight sale. Design and surveys often take a few months, then Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council needs time to decide, and marketing and conveyancing follow. The council’s workload, extra reports and any appeal drive the timing, so we give a realistic range after the appraisal.

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