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Sell your garden plot subject to planning in Banstead

A sale subject to planning sits halfway between selling your Banstead garden plot outright and waiting to see what happens. It commits us from exchange, so you aren’t left with an offer that can quietly fade, but it doesn’t move any land until Reigate and Banstead Borough Council has granted permission.

We’re a new brand within the S&K Group, so we won’t claim a long track record. What we can offer is a contract you can read, a price set before the decision, and a scheme designed carefully around the council’s Local Plan. Your own solicitor checks everything before you sign.

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Site plan and house elevation drawings on a kitchen table with the back garden beyond the window
Planning authority
Reigate and Banstead Borough Council
Postcodes
KT20, SM7
Noon sun, 21 March
About 39°
Shadow from a 5 m eaves line
About 6.2 m
Planning plan
Local Plan
County
Surrey

How it plays out in Banstead

On a conditional sale, the contract defines what kind of permission triggers completion. In Banstead, that definition has to reflect what Reigate and Banstead Borough Council is likely to ask for: access standards, parking, perhaps biodiversity net gain rules, and possibly a contribution or the Community Infrastructure Levy if the council charges it.

Getting this right protects both sides. Set too tightly, a sound permission might not count; too loosely, you could be held to a sale on terms nobody expected. We draft it around the council’s Local Plan and explain every limb of it before you sign.

Section showing noon sun and shadows in Banstead: about 39 degrees on 21 March and 15 degrees on 21 December21 m21 Mar, noon: sun 39°, shadow 6.2 m21 Dec, noon: sun 15°, shadow 18.4 mExistingNew home
This section is worked out for the latitude of Banstead: around 39° of sun at midday in late March and about 15° 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.

The next steps, locally

After you get in touch about a garden in Banstead, we run the free appraisal and explain which route we would recommend. If it is a sale subject to planning, we draft heads of terms covering the price, the scheme, the long-stop date and costs. Once your solicitor is happy and contracts are exchanged, we begin the planning work.

  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

  • Once contracts are exchanged you are committed to sell if a satisfactory permission is granted.
  • You wait for a planning decision, and possibly an appeal, before you are paid.
  • The plot can’t be sold to anyone else while the contract runs, even if another offer comes along.

Questions about garden plots in Banstead

Can I still use my garden in Banstead 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.

How long might a sale subject to planning take in Banstead?

It usually runs for months, sometimes longer. Exchange often takes a few months; surveys and drawings take a few more; and the Planning Portal says most applications are decided within eight weeks of being valid, though garden schemes can take longer. The long-stop date sets the outer limit, agreed with you at the start.

Do I pay for the planning application on my Banstead 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.

Is a sale subject to planning in Banstead better than an option?

It depends on the plot. A conditional sale binds both sides from exchange and suits a single plot with a clear scheme. An option gives us a right to buy rather than an obligation, and suits plots where the outcome is less certain or the timescale is longer. We’ll recommend one after the appraisal.

Other options in Banstead

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