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You could probably get the flat roof build up at about 250 ceiling to top finish. Less if you are will to use expensive insulation, or a hybrbid buildup. You may be better simply to go for planning on it after building the dormer if height is a real issue.

The potential buyer has spent money looking at future options on a slight chance they may get the land. Unless you are willing to equally spend it's unlikely you'll aquire the same knowledge and be able to value the land in the same way. If you aren't willing spend your only real option is to...

If they connect the whole thing needs to work to all applicable PD paragraphs (Class A, para. ja) and you cant pick and chose which rules to apply to which parts. That only works if they are distinct unconnected separate extensions so they are assessed separately. At present it will not pass as...

Sometimes it is cheaper and often done, really depends what exists there now and what is proposed and working out the additional things that may be required due to retention. E.g. depending on existing/proposed may need calculations, additional steelwork, lifting equipment, pad stones / plates...

If you need a build over it doesn't matter if the work is PD or planning, you still need to do it. (As an aside if your two extensions touch then splitting PD/planning doesn't work.)

If the garage is already converted it might make sense to retain and steel over. But if its just a single skin brick wall garage I'd still suggest exploring rebuilding. If space permits you could also then widen slightly for minimal cost and make the bedroom above a double. You can also build in...

I would take whatever they visually appear to be and what they are measured as to be their actual size (rather than what BC may have deemed them to be in 1994). Obviously the design should work for the actual size of footing that exists. Putting steels on top of the walls sounds technically...

An LDC includes an assessment against the PD rules as "pass" or "fail". If something isn't PD it will "fail" and you won't get an LDC. If you want separate parts to be reviewed as separate applications they should be submitted separately. You you do submit as one, you can try and negotiate with...

Speak to your neighbour and see if they are happy for you to remove?

Yes private manholes serving just your property can be internal. I'd expect drainage works to be notifiable but if you're doing an extension then presumably you are already be getting an Approved Inspection of the Local Authority to sign off the works - they will do drainage as part of that...

From my understanding on the PD rules it is only the "touching" of added volumes that matters and nothing to do with extent of construction work. If my interpretation is wrong and "touching" includes replacing existing items or internal alterations then two build stages still wouldn't help...

By rear loft conversion I assume you mean rear loft extension with dormers. If the PD works and planning permission works do not physically join then you can do them in one go. Assuming your rear dormers don't touch the front dormer then I'd agree with your architect and disagree with someone...

You cannot build a two storey side extension with planning approval and then attach the main roof onto it using hip to gable PD rights. Anything PD touches has to be either the existing property, or fall within PD rules itself. In any case if you are adding a two storey side extension I am...

As tony1851 says under PD it is counted as one. The limits apply to the size of the total enlargement (being the proposed enlargement together with the existing enlargement). Basically if you built a 2 storey 3m extension you can't build anything else under PD that connects onto it (not even a...

If you can do something under PD then you can just build it and you don't technically need an LDC. An LDC simply confirms the council views the works would fall under PD if they had been completed on the day of the letter. It is good if you don't want to risk that you may have misunderstood the...

You don't have to have a corner/return - simply if you don't it just needs working out properly (and may require a steel post to help restrain, or a lintel fixed in a certain way, or sometimes the joist fixings can help solve, etc. The structural engineer doing the structural drawings and...

NHBC is not building regulation, the requirements you are looking at I suspect are the HNBC requirements for new homes. Also, if the pipe is only in one dwelling I don't believe there is a regulation for this - and the HNBC part you are looking at is for flats and where a pipe passes through...

As you know there is no lagging I assume you have already stripped off the plasterboard. In which case I'd suggest insulate, then reline with plasterboard and see how it performs acoustically, and then make the decision whether to add another layer. A heavy weight/acoustically design...

Open plan is fine in a 2 storey (without protected stairs) but still subject to meeting other requirements such as windows to bedrooms you can escape from. That is assuming it is a typical storey height on a flat site too - as the rules are technically heights, not storeys.

I'd basically ask them to straighten the fence up as its "falling over", which they would hopefully do. (rather than suggest they deliberately pushed it over). If they refuses ask them to take the fence down, or ask if you can take it down - assuming there is a wall or something the other side...