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 • Loft to be sold, restoration loft, hiring loft, enlarging loft
Before engaging, better is worth well to know the implications of the change of destination
The change of destination is the passage of a type of use (activity or housing) to another. Thanks to the payments of town planning, each city defines on its territory the zones where it privileges such or such use as well as specific rules which will enable him to influence the urban development.
To transform an old workshop into loft, a hotel closed down in dwelling house, offices in apartment or a barn while restoring: all these cases of figure are connected with a change of destination and require, if they are accompanied by work, the delivery of a permit building.
The administration distinguishes nine types different of uses of buildings: dwelling, hotel, offices or services, industry, trade or craft industry, utility service, commercial warehouse, agricultural use, parking.
That one is in urban area or agricultural zone, the principle is the same one: any passage of the one of these uses to another is regarded as a change of destination.
A contrario, if one modifies the activity within the same category of use, there will be no change of destination and thus not need for permit building: one will remain under the mode of the declaration in the event of work.
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Zone sensitive and communes of France
In rural area, such commune, for example, will prohibit to transform constructions located into agricultural zone in dwelling, while its neighbor authorizes it.
In certain areas, this type of change of destination is regarded by the communes as an aubaine by communes: that makes it possible to repopulate corners isolated to safeguard the inheritance….
Does the family increase? Are your friends in visit always obliged to occupy the settee of the living room? You took the practice to use your garage for very safe parking your car? To transform the garage into additional part can be a solution to increase the house.
But attention, such a transformation is not done all alone and requires authorizations. Indeed, even if surface concerned does not exceed 20 m ², the transformation of a room into livable part is connected with a “change of destination” which requires in all the cases a permit building.
Moreover, the transformation of the livable space of your house will involve a whole series of implications which should not be neglected.
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 You will have to check the conformity of your project to the possible constraints of vicinity, problems of sight, sunning of the close residences, agreements of joint ownership, establishment compared to the street, height, service road by roadway system and public networks, importance of construction compared to the ground (coefficient of influence on the ground and percentage occupied time of the grounds).
Indeed, to simplify, a window in a wall before plugs giving on the room of the neighbors can make all the difference.
Moreover, before launching you, you must be sure that there remain to you rights to build on your piece: because it is not the occupation on the ground which precedes here, but the livable proportion of construction on a given ground.
This percentage occupied time of ground (COS), given on the communal territory by the POS, expresses the maximum density authorized by a ratio applicable to surface of your ground. If you did yourself to build your house, you must have the figure of the authorized COS.
Let us take an example: if your piece makes 500 m ² and that the COS authorized there is of 0,35, your right to build total is of 175 m ² (500x0,35). If the surface of your dwelling is already of 160 m2 and that the garage has a surface of 25 m ², you will exceed your COS and your permit building is likely all to be refused.
If you are not entitled any more to build, do not despair. To meet an architect of the Council of architecture, town planning and environment (CAUE) of your department.
This man (or woman) of the art, whose councils are free, will be able to perhaps find an easy way which, while respecting the regulation, will enable you to carry out your project. It is always better to consult before rather than to wipe a refusal of permit building.
Attention, if installation makes pass livable space to more than 170 m ², the law obliges you to call upon an architect - this service will be paying.
Other rules to be noted, those which apply to the obligation of parking bays. The fact of transforming its garage into livable part withdraws one indeed, even two, bays parking to your property.
However, the majority of the POS impose a certain number of places (one, two, even three) per piece. Certain payments of allotments impose even covered garages. You must thus envisage another site, cover if necessary, on your ground, if not the licence could be to you refused.
If you do not have a place, your commune will ask you to pay a tax of participation for the right to station on the public highway. These taxes can be high: more 13.000€, for example in Paris region.
Lastly, think of the ordinary rules of town planning, like the respect of the distance of 1,90 m between a window and the limit of piece. And if your project modifies the appearance of your house, do not forget which the Architect of the Building industries of France will be also consulted if you are located in a perimeter of less than 500 m of a historic building.
The enlarging of livable space will also have effects on the taxes. Thus, it will be necessary to envisage a local tax of equipment, as well as connection fee to mains drainage, even if you did not envisage toilets or of wash-hand basin in your installation.
The real estate tax will be also concerned. The services of the taxes will be directly informed by the service of the permit building. You do not have thus a declaration to make near the service of the taxes.
You will not require for a licence to demolish, even if you must bore a load-bearing wall, since all this will be specified in the permit building
the posting of the permit building on the ground is obligatory as of its obtaining and during the duration of the work, and any person has the right to go to consult the file in town hall
If your commune its DID NOT RAIN yet, you inform about the dates planned for its implementation because certain rules can be softened compared to the POS
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