Claw Back Clause

[YorkshireGirl2016]

Anyone had any experience with The Crown and a Claw Back Clause? When is it triggered...when planning permission has gone through or sale of the property? I want to convert a barn into separate living quarters for elderly relatives!

Surely the only way to answer this question is by reading the exact wording of the specific clause in your paperwork. It doesn't matter what happened in anyone else's experience, only what is written with regard to this specific piece of land.

It says the yse if the property whilst it remains within the same ownership as the adjoining residential property (my house) fir domestic purposes ancillary to the residential use of (my house) as a private dwelling and or as a small business undertaken by the owner if (my house)

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You’ll need to provide a bit more of the clause before anyone can help…..it’ll vary with each individual property..

Thats all it says?

What does it actually say about the circumstances under which an additional sum is due?

Domestic purposes ancillary to the use of (your house) could include it being used as a home office, laundry room or gym etc. You could probably also get away with converting it to bedrooms so long as the conversion doesn't include a kitchen. If it has its own kitchen it would be a separate dwelling, be liable for a separate Council Tax and might well trigger the clawback clause.

Could the layout of your main house be adapted to hive off a section of the building to be the dwelling for the relatives, whilst using the Barn for "ancillary" purposes (eg Home Office etc, replacing whatever rooms you lose from the main house)?