Planning obligations, or section 106 agreements, are legally binding agreements made between applicants and the local council in order to help make certain developments acceptable. Sometimes the planning obligation may relate to a financial payment, or a requirement to do something specific with the land in question. In many cases, the agreement remains binding for a long time.
We’ve recently been assisting a client in Devizes, Wiltshire, with a planning obligation that was first agreed in 1990 and which required that the site could not be sold off from its larger holding, and the dwelling approved in the accompanying planning permission was to be used only in conjunction with adjoining farm land.
Due to the passage of time along with changes to how the planning system functions – very differently to 36 years ago – we were able to apply to have the planning obligation removed, which has now been approved by the Council.
If your land is affected by a planning obligation or planning conditions and you are unsure if there is anything you can do about this, please contact us, and we’ll be happy to talk through your options.
