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    Adding new window, where none currently exist

    Might get a bit drafty
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    Retrospective Building Regs....conservatory!

    Hm, wish you'd asked us before speaking to BC
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    Planning thoughts

    Typically, the principal elevation is the one facing the road. There are exceptions but in these instances, if you stand outside and look at your house, it's usually pretty obvious.
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    Beam simply sitting on padstone!!!

    Knowing if and when a beam should be tied down to a padstone is a prerequisite of neither an architect nor a builder.
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    Help! - Prior Approval - 8m - Larger Home Extension Scheme

    I doubt the OP will get this through Planning
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    Help! - Prior Approval - 8m - Larger Home Extension Scheme

    What will you do if planning for the first floor rear extension is refused?
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    Help! - Prior Approval - 8m - Larger Home Extension Scheme

    This is from page 18 of the Technical Guidance (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/830643/190910_Tech_Guide_for_publishing.pdf). I appreciate the Technical Guidance is 'guidance', not 'law'; nevertheless, the guidance is used by...
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    Help! - Prior Approval - 8m - Larger Home Extension Scheme

    I think the OP is asking whether the following is permissable under the Class A.4. My understanding of the Act and Technical Guidance is that it is - but, like your architect, I'm not certain. A Certificate of Lawfulness for Proposed Use or Development might be a sensible way to go -...
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    Any way of checking my Building control application?

    I think that's a fake; it's not signed and doesn't say 'acceptance'. Also, not nearly enough exclamation marks.
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    building within 3m of public sewer

    Drawings are so over-rated, aren't they?
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    Any way of checking my Building control application?

    A certificate? Is this a scam?
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    Any way of checking my Building control application?

    What's an 'acceptance'?
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    Ubutressed wall length and lateral support

    I would trust a real structural engineer (that I could sue) over an imaginary online pundit (that I couldn't)
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    Am I allowed to brick up an outside door?

    Just carry on.
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    Do building control sign off permitted developments?

    The two concepts are unrelated. If the development met the threshold for Notification (as it existed at that time) then it should have been 'signed off'. Whether it met that threshold, and whether due process was observed, are other matters entirely.
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    Planning Permission - change of roof design

    Probably nothing
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    Question on pre-commencement conditions

    Time to phone your friendly local planning lawyer.
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    Prior Approval Application 6 Metre ground floor extension Rejected due to neighbour's light concern

    If you can, go and talk to your neighbour about their concerns. If their concerns are valid (seems unlikely), then modify/splay the design such that it won't impact on the neighbour's light. This has a better chance of success than the PP route.
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    Question on pre-commencement conditions

    No. Really? On what date does the permission expire (it's the date 3 years from the date of the Planning Inspectors)
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    Question on pre-commencement conditions

    It means the work can go ahead subject to the discharge of the pre-commencement conditions. No work (that is demonstrably related to this permission - and is not ordinary enabling work) can begin until those conditions are discharged to the satisfaction of the LPA. Crucially, a 'material start'...
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