I'm a school caretaker (Site Supervisor is official title!!) and have a project coming up that will be roughly £25k and will necessitate planning permission. It's a pretty simple canopy, with electrically operated roller shutters as walls .. similar to
Went on the government planning portal and the option most closely applicable to us is a house and conservatory! I have absolutely no experience of presenting planning permissions, though the portal looks easy enough to follow and we have all the details to hand in pdf form, almost ready to submit .. ;) I am technically minded, having Mechanical & Production engineering qualifications, so think I should be able to work out what needs doing easily enough ..
Does anyone have any expertise or experience in this area? Would the house/conservatory route be worth taking or would it be likely to fail due to wrong attributions?
Reason we're doing it ourselves is we've dealt with all the contractors before for other projects and have confidence in them to do the jobs, but the local council will take a 10% fee to manage it for us, and we reckon £2500 would be better spent on other school stuff. The Head has confidence in me to manage the project and I reckon I can do it, but would like to gain a bit of confidence before it becomes properly official ....
Any help or guidance would be much appreciated. Replies telling me to piss off and use the council, supported by good reasons why, would also be acceptable .. ;)