Recent content by qy206

Hi all, I'll try to be as concise as possible... :cry: Our builder walked off site on 1st July after we had paid him >80% of the project costs (roughly £40k). Admittedly we'd approached our property refurbishment very naively and paid him a lot of the money upfront which is a huge regret in...

If we appeal, I think we'll use someone more in the know...who will no doubt charge us for being in the know :roll: The decision was apparently made because the case officer had seen many other properties with a similar layout and hence inferred that they were "original...

Yea, in hindsight we really should have enlisted the help of someone with listed building expertise... Does anyone have any experiences of appeals to share? From the planning portal I can see that roughly 10%-15% are successful...not great odds...

Are we likely to get anything back? Or are we just gonna p*ss him off in the process?...

Really? We have not been a big fan of him but he came recommended which is why we used him as he's helped people we know in the past... :cry:

But we want our best shot at succeeding in appeal which is why we wanted to hire someone. We were thinking of Savills. Has anyone had much success with them in the past? We would be very grateful to hear anyone's experiences :oops:

No, I hadn't even realised I was supposed to speak to a conservation officer. Our draftsman didn't mention it and neither did the case officer who came to assess the property. From what the case officer said when he referred to "original features", it sounded like he was referring to the...

So totally new to this forum and this is the first time I'm ever attempting to doing any refurbishments at all! :shock: Apologies for the long explanation... :oops: Bought a Grade II listed property earlier this year with my partner and we planned to do some internal renovations, namely...