Planning laws are deliberately broad and vague as they allow planning departments to pass or fail anything where they get to make the decision regardless of the actual merits. With the LHES, the government should have stuck to their guns and excluded planning inspectors from the decision making...
We are getting a rear loft built and I am confused about the 20cm set back rule, in particular on how it relates to the side of the house. We have a three-bed semi. The original roof sloped in from all three sides( hipped roof I believe in the technical jargon ). The roof has been removed...