Planning Permisions and PLU

[Atlanti_View]

Hello

We bought our house in a village in the Tarn in 2010. 

At the time of purchase we applied and were granted a C.U on all 12,000 m2 of

land.  Two years later we applied for a C.U. on for two small plots,

dividing two large sections at extreme ends of the land. These were granted and

houses built.  We recently applied for C.U’s on further plots and have

been told that the land is now no longer constructible.   The land is

fairly central in the village, has access from a departmental road and close to

water, electricity and drainage.  The village has a population of 450 and

is aiming to raise this to 600.

How can this have happened? One of the reasons were needed

to be able to sell plots was to pay for the renovations of our house.  The

only reason we can think of is that the new plots would boarder on to two

gardens of houses owned by member of the council.  Can we appeal the

reverse the planning decision without upsetting the council?  The village

PLU changed in 2014 but until we made this last application we were not aware

of any changes.

[woolybanana]

PLU's can change but the reasons may well be less than clear. Of course, it may be that there is a genuine reason, such as land being prone to flooding or access problems, but it may be much less apparent. In my previous area personal interests definitely weighed on the plan and any changes.

Your suspicion about the land bordering on that of an influential individual may well be correct but to fight it could be complex and damaging.

What you might do is to try and find out whether any other land had now been brought within the plan and who owns it, so that, if there is skulduggery, you do have an idea of what is going on.

Again, in my previous area, building permissions were sometimes refused on personal grounds with spurious reasons being found, such as falsified measurements, when the real reason was that the guy had pissed off the mayor.

[EuroTrash]

I think wb may be being a bit over cynical although that does happen without a doubt. But the first thing to do is to look at the town's new urban plan. It could simply be that it has decided to focus the new residential development in a different area of town and it doesn't want any new building outside of that development zone. Once you've studied the plans and seen what zones are currently constructible and which aren't, you will be able to make a more informed assessment of the situation - has the decision on your plots been taken apparently in isolation or is it part of an overal picture.

Towns typically revise their plans every 4 years which is why long term speculation is always dangerous in France.