Planning permission

Hi, first port of call is your local Townhall. Each area can have different criterea.

You must go to the town hall as previously suggested.  They lay down the rules for the municipal area that falls under their control.  It will depend on whether your property in an urban area or in a rustic area and also whether if in rustic, it is in a specially protected area,  eg. LIC area is Lugar de Interés de Comunidad,  Also the size of extension they may permit may also depend on the size of your plot and of the existing building although they rarely check if you end up doing it a little bit bigger after the permission is granted (which you can often get away with if you´re not overlooked or the countryside).   If it is an urban property, their are also rules about distance from shared boundry walls and windows opening out onto your neighbour´s property in less than a specified distance.  You probably will have to draw a plan of and produce photos of the existing building and also a plan of the proposed extension.  It all takes a while to go through and they may ask you to get a technical draughtsman to do a plan. Expense.  No paperwork is particularly simple here!  Having done everything and built the extension you then have to go through the palaver (and a bit more expense of course!) putting the extension onto your deeds which means visits to the catastral office first as the addition must be on the catastral plans in order for the notary to change your deeds and the then the Property Register to stamp it (€€€). It does cut costs a great deal being able to do all the running around etc. yourself but you would need to speak reasonably good Spanish and have plenty of patience and staying power.     

Many thanks.

That’s really helpful.