Hi guys, first post in the forum, nice to meet you all.
Basically, myself and my partner +1 child currently live in a 3 bed semi, last year I sadly lost my grandmother, but I inherited her house, and a sizeable inheritance sum with it.
After time has passed, we've been able to look at our housing situation with fresh eyes, and have decided we'd quite like to move into her old property, and sell our current.
My late grandmother's property is in a very sought after location, with a couple of very good schools very close by. However, it's only a 2 bed property (which is fine for now, but looking forward we would like another child), and it's a 1930s property with solid walls, and quite poor insulation by today's standard. It's also got very old electrics throughout, with no safety trip installed. It does however have plenty of off street parking, and a huge rear garden, about 110ft from the back of the house to the rear perimeter fence infact.
Our plan would be to extend the rear of the property with a double storey 3m extension using permitted development, and changing the layout to the rear upstairs adding a 3rd bedroom. Downstairs there's already been an extension rearwards in the mid 80s, but only around 2.5m, and it hasn't been done to the best standard, so ideally it would need taking back to the original house and starting again. We'd also like to take the opportunity to modernise the house, creating an en-suite bathroom in the front master bedroom which is huge, so could afford the room, completely re-plaster, and re-wire the whole house, add underfloor heating downstairs, and also external solid wall insulation if possible, rendering it all in to tie in with the new extension.
Budget wise, we have about £130k available, possibly more with the profit of the sale of our current house. I have no idea at this point if our plans make this budget realistic, or not. If so, we may have to scale our plans accordingly. 130k on top of the houses value would probably exceed the ceiling price of this type of house in the area by 10-20k, but as the house is mortgage free, and it's more about creating our home than thinking about financial returns, this is not of massive concern to me.
It's also worth noting that the property would be vacant throughout the extension, as we would sell our house after the move, something I believe would be quite handy during work of this magnitude.
My main question is this, having never extended, or thought of extending before, where do I start? I know in my head what I want, but I don't know if it's builders I need to contact first, or an architect to look at my ideas from a structural and practical perspective, and then put them into plans to then show builders?
Ofcourse, there would be no point spending money on these designs, only to later find out that our budget which really would top out at around £150k isn't enough for the proposed plans, so maybe it's builders I need to speak to first? I really don't know, and am asking for your advice please guys.
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Secondly, as the garden is so large, I'd quite like to have a brick built outbuilding to accommodate a hobby of mine. The proposed building would have a footprint of around 60ft x 10ft, and the roof would need to be no higher than 2m. It would go along the dividing wall of the garden, but it would be separate from the main building.
Would such a building need planning permission? If my grasp of PD is correct, I think it would be okay, as it would still not take up more than 50% of the area around the original property (including the extension) and even though it would be close to a boundary, the roof height would not be more than 2m?
The second question is purely speculative at this point, it would entirely depend on budget of the main extension.
Thanks in advance.
Matt.
Basically, myself and my partner +1 child currently live in a 3 bed semi, last year I sadly lost my grandmother, but I inherited her house, and a sizeable inheritance sum with it.
After time has passed, we've been able to look at our housing situation with fresh eyes, and have decided we'd quite like to move into her old property, and sell our current.
My late grandmother's property is in a very sought after location, with a couple of very good schools very close by. However, it's only a 2 bed property (which is fine for now, but looking forward we would like another child), and it's a 1930s property with solid walls, and quite poor insulation by today's standard. It's also got very old electrics throughout, with no safety trip installed. It does however have plenty of off street parking, and a huge rear garden, about 110ft from the back of the house to the rear perimeter fence infact.
Our plan would be to extend the rear of the property with a double storey 3m extension using permitted development, and changing the layout to the rear upstairs adding a 3rd bedroom. Downstairs there's already been an extension rearwards in the mid 80s, but only around 2.5m, and it hasn't been done to the best standard, so ideally it would need taking back to the original house and starting again. We'd also like to take the opportunity to modernise the house, creating an en-suite bathroom in the front master bedroom which is huge, so could afford the room, completely re-plaster, and re-wire the whole house, add underfloor heating downstairs, and also external solid wall insulation if possible, rendering it all in to tie in with the new extension.
Budget wise, we have about £130k available, possibly more with the profit of the sale of our current house. I have no idea at this point if our plans make this budget realistic, or not. If so, we may have to scale our plans accordingly. 130k on top of the houses value would probably exceed the ceiling price of this type of house in the area by 10-20k, but as the house is mortgage free, and it's more about creating our home than thinking about financial returns, this is not of massive concern to me.
It's also worth noting that the property would be vacant throughout the extension, as we would sell our house after the move, something I believe would be quite handy during work of this magnitude.
My main question is this, having never extended, or thought of extending before, where do I start? I know in my head what I want, but I don't know if it's builders I need to contact first, or an architect to look at my ideas from a structural and practical perspective, and then put them into plans to then show builders?
Ofcourse, there would be no point spending money on these designs, only to later find out that our budget which really would top out at around £150k isn't enough for the proposed plans, so maybe it's builders I need to speak to first? I really don't know, and am asking for your advice please guys.
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Secondly, as the garden is so large, I'd quite like to have a brick built outbuilding to accommodate a hobby of mine. The proposed building would have a footprint of around 60ft x 10ft, and the roof would need to be no higher than 2m. It would go along the dividing wall of the garden, but it would be separate from the main building.
Would such a building need planning permission? If my grasp of PD is correct, I think it would be okay, as it would still not take up more than 50% of the area around the original property (including the extension) and even though it would be close to a boundary, the roof height would not be more than 2m?
The second question is purely speculative at this point, it would entirely depend on budget of the main extension.
Thanks in advance.
Matt.