In most areas, you will not need planning permission. However, if the property is listed or in a conservation area, you will need listed building consent or planning permission to paint the exterior. A surveyor or architect's advice will be invaluable as they can help with this process.
Tetbury
Tetbury is a town and civil parish within the Cotswold area of Gloucestershire, England. It pushes the site of an ancient hillside ft, on which an Anglo-Saxon abbey was founded, most likely by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in the 2001 census, raising to 5,472 at the 2011 census. Throughout the Middle Ages, Tetbury became an essential market for Cotswold woollen as well as yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, established 1972, is a yearly competitors where participants have to lug a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of wool up and down a steep hill (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races happen on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May annually. Remarkable structures in the community consist of the Church House, Market House, constructed in 1655 as well as the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin as well as St Mary Magdalene and much of the remainder of the town centre, dating from the sixteenth and also seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great example of a Cotswold pillared market residence as well as is still in operation as a meeting point and also market. Various other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and Westonbirt Arboretum lie just outside the town. Tetbury has won 5 successive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competitors in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 as well as 2010 and also was group victor "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and also 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom as well as won a Juries Discretionary Award for Neighborhood Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a novice participant in the National Britain in Bloom Project in 2009 and also a 2nd Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury community crest includes two dolphins.