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.
Banff
Banff is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Banff is situated on Banff Bay and faces the town of Macduff across the estuary of the River Banff is a former royal burgh, and also is the county town of the historical county of Banffshire. Banff's first castle was developed to ward off Viking intruders and also a charter of 1163 AD reveals that Malcolm IV was living there during that time. Throughout this period the community was a busy trading centre in the "free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, despite not having its own harbour until 1775. The very first documented Sheriff of Banff was Richard de Strathewan in 1264, and in 1372 Royal Burgh condition was conferred by King Robert II. By the 15th century Banff was among 3 primary communities exporting salmon to the continent of Europe, along with Aberdeen and Montrose. There was a large amount of lawlessness in seventeenth-century Scotland, as well as a few of the worst culprits were members of the nobility. According to documents maintained by historian William Cramond, the tolbooth (court house and also jail) of Banff was, in 1628, the site of a run-in in between Lord Banff as well as James Ogilvie, his loved one. Apparently, he struck James Ogilvie upon the head with a baton throughout a court hearing. Twenty of his friends and followers then struck Ogilvie with swords prior to chasing him into the street and also completing him off with a handgun shot. Banff and Macduff are divided by the valley of the River Deveron. This unforeseeable river was finally tamed by the seven curved bridge finished in 1779 by John Smeaton. An earlier bridge had actually been constructed in 1765, yet was swept away in 1768. The old ferry was revived right into usage, up until it was shed in a flood in 1773. A public conference was held in 1800 as well as passed a resolution for the building of a turnpike road between Turiff as well as Banff as the existing road was in a sad state of repair work. Later 19th century transportation improvements included the building of two railway lines, from Macduff to Turiff in 1860 and the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway in 1859 which linked to the major Aberdeen to Inverness line. Throughout the 19th Century the Banff Fishery District (comprising the ports from Crovie to Sandend) was essential to the herring trade, with production coming to a head in 1853 at greater than sixty-thousand barrels, of which nearly thirty-four thousand were exported, nevertheless by 1912 production had actually declined to just over eight thousand barrels. Presently, the languages talked in the community and in its vicinity often tend to be the Doric dialect of Scots, and English.
