Déclaration Prélable

[Alex H]

I'm proposing to build a veranda on the house and have to fill in a Déclaration Prélable. Of course, it's been sent back with a few errors [:$]

One of which is to do with the floor area (surface de plancher), as I thought they meant only the veranda, not the whole house.

Now I have searched the obvious bits of paper, tax forms, deeds etc, but nowhere can I find what area has been used for the purposes of taxation.

I would rather not measure the whole house again, if I can avoid it, although I realise an H1 is on the cards for the changes I am making.

Anyone any ideas where the magic figure is hiding?

[noblesse]

This asking for the Surface Plancher is a relatively new thing. When we put in a Déclaration Prélable last year we were asked for the Surface Plancher of the property and the person doing the planning application for us said it was the first time she had been asked for it.

Surface Plancher is the new SHON and won't feature on any of your paperwork, unless your paperwork is from just last year. Just figure the surface area of the habitable part of your house and give them that figure. I doubt they'll be around to make sure it's to the nearest millimetre

noblesse

[Alex H]

Well, I did the obvious thing and went to my local tax office. After a little confusion as to what I was asking, I said to them that  Surface Plancher is used as the basis of the habitation tax, so they must know what it is for my house. A few minutes on the computer and she came back with the figure for house and dependency. [:D]

[idun]

AlexH, I think that the reason they ask is because the figures they have are often not up to date, people change things in their homes, add bits etc without planning permission etc. So they will automatically ask such questions, when people make applications for things.

[Alex H]

[quote user="idun"]AlexH, I think that the reason they ask is because the figures they have are often not up to date, people change things in their homes, add bits etc without planning permission etc. So they will automatically ask such questions, when people make applications for things.

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The asking was not the problem. As I did not know what had already been declared, I did not want to put the wrong figure in and get landed with the whole H1 saga before I have finished what I'm doing [:)]