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Sell your garden plot subject to planning in Ashington

Selling your garden plot in Ashington subject to planning means agreeing the price now and completing only once permission is granted. Contracts are exchanged at the start, so both sides are committed, but the plot stays in your name until the condition is met. If Northumberland County Council refuses and the contract ends, you keep your land.

We normally fund the planning application, with any cost recovery agreed in heads of terms before you sign. That lets you benefit from a price informed by planning without paying for drawings, surveys or fees yourself. Our free appraisal tells you whether the plot looks right for it.

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Site plan and house elevation drawings on a kitchen table with the back garden beyond the window
Planning authority
Northumberland County Council
Postcodes
NE62, NE63, NE64
Noon sun, 21 March
About 35°
Shadow from a 5 m eaves line
About 7.2 m
Planning plan
Local Plan
County
Northumberland

Ashington: light, access and policy

Some of the strongest conditional sales involve more than one garden. If your plot in Ashington is a little narrow, a neighbour’s garden beside it may make a better scheme possible, and the same is true in places nearby such as Bedlington, Blyth and Morpeth. Northumberland County Council would then judge one application for the combined site. Each owner can sign a separate conditional contract, linked so that none completes unless the scheme for the whole site is approved.

That needs careful drafting and patience, and it isn’t right for every street. When it does fit, it can turn two awkward plots into one good one.

Section showing noon sun and shadows in Ashington: about 35 degrees on 21 March and 11 degrees on 21 December21 m21 Mar, noon: sun 35°, shadow 7.2 m21 Dec, noon: sun 11°, shadow 24.8 mExistingNew home
This section is worked out for the latitude of Ashington: around 35° of sun at midday in late March and about 11° at midwinter. It shows why the gap between your house and a new home behind it is about light as well as privacy. Garden assumed to face north.

How we’d take it forward in Ashington

Getting started takes one message: your address and a rough sketch or description of the land you have in mind. From that we pull the title, look at the planning background and ring you with our view. If a conditional sale looks sensible, we come out to see the garden. Heads of terms follow, and your solicitor reviews them before anything is signed.

  1. Free plot appraisal

    We check your title, access, planning history and local policy from our desk, then talk it through with you. If a new home looks realistic, we visit the garden and tell you which route we think suits it best.

  2. Heads of terms

    We set out the price or price formula, what counts as satisfactory permission, the long-stop date, how any planning costs are treated and who pays which fees. You see all of it before instructing a solicitor.

  3. Planning application

    We commission the surveys, prepare the drawings, seek pre-application advice where useful and submit the application, normally at our cost. You see the plans before they go in, and the council makes the decision.

  4. Completion, or you keep your land

    Once a satisfactory permission is granted and any challenge period has passed, the sale completes within the agreed time and the plot gets its own title. If permission is refused and the contract ends, the land stays yours.

Worth checking early

  • You wait for a planning decision, and possibly an appeal, before you are paid.
  • The definition of satisfactory permission and the long-stop date decide how certain the sale really is; read both closely.
  • Once contracts are exchanged you are committed to sell if a satisfactory permission is granted.

Your questions, answered for Ashington

Do I pay for the planning application on my Ashington garden plot?

We normally fund the planning application, including surveys and drawings. Any recovery of those costs is agreed in heads of terms before you sign, for example as a deduction from the price at completion. You see the full position before instructing a solicitor, so there are no surprises later.

What if I want to sell my Ashington house during a conditional sale?

Tell us as early as you can. The conditional contract is noted on your title, so your house buyer’s solicitor will see it. The two sales can usually be arranged together, but the order matters for the legal work and possibly for Capital Gains Tax, so take advice from a tax adviser too.

Do I keep my garden in Ashington if planning is refused?

Yes. Nothing is transferred until a satisfactory permission is granted, so a refusal leaves the land in your ownership. Depending on the contract, we may revise the scheme and reapply, or appeal, before the long-stop date. If that doesn’t succeed, the contract ends and our notice comes off your title.

Can I still use my garden in Ashington while the contract runs?

Yes. The plot stays yours until completion, so you carry on using it as garden. The contract will ask you not to build on it, fell trees or grant new rights over it without agreement, and to allow surveyors in from time to time, by arrangement. Your solicitor will point out anything specific.

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