Recent content by poly

Thank you. Most of the houses on this street have various types of extensions altering the original look, but generally on the side (one or two story), garages converted, new porches smaller or larger, but none have this alteration of the bay windows side. Given the houses on the street all look...

It's like this, and we are the furthest back at the middle of the crescent on one side, so maybe it's room for debate where the building line is? Thank you

Is it more likely to get planning permision if only the ground floor room would be extended, by 2-3m into the front garden? I imagine either a flat roof with flat rooflights or a more decorative pitched roof with tiles to match the roof of the house. I would prefer though to extend the room on...

Hi I would like to extend part of the front of our house, so the sitting room downstairs and bedroom uptairs, maybe by 2-3m to have larger rooms, into our front garden. It's a semidetached, typical from 1930, something like the one in the photo (from the public domain). Our house is set back by...

Something like that. It would be on the back of the house though, extending on the lateral side.

Thank you. There is already a loft extension done, long ago, but just a type of window dormer in the middle of the back aspect of the roof. The space is used as a bedroom, but there are many areas with reduced height. I aim to change the window dormer with this larger dormer to gain height...

Hi I'm using an internet photo to find out if such an extension on a hip roof is possible. I would like to avoid doing a hip to gable but still have full height. Is there a way of cutting part of the hip in order to create this box extension or the roof would fall apart? I am not a builder or...