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Rightio, I have an application that has been recommended for approval by the case officer, there is still a week until the decision deadline. My client now wants to reduce the size of the relatively straightforward side extension. What is the best way to do this? I thought about asking the...

thanks Paul, thats good to know

What happens when you withdraw? Do you get the fee back? When you re-submit can you re-use the fee? I have never had to do this and can't you say that the request for information is not possible within the time frame and appeal after non-determination?

Freddy, i only omit the trees if i beleive they will not affect the extension. Are you saying that in Plymouth, the L.A. requires trees to be plotted if they are within falling distance AND a tree survey? or do they just want to know that the trees are there - and then after a site visit...

Does the question on the planning application form ask whether there are any trees within the boundary or adjacent to it that are within falling distance of the proposal? If they aren't, maybe the architect wasn't lazy, lying or incompetent. The tree survey has come back saying that the trees...

Well, i have skim read the NFFP and it seems to point fingers in all sorts of directions without having a clear guideline for the public. I will not be looking at it in more depth as i agree with Jeds, about the impact it wil have on householder applications. Also, i am assuming that Local...

so what is going to make more of a difference to me, is the document that the local authorities are going to publish as their own specific guidelines? I haven't heard of or seenany of these. Is there going to be any real difference at all for home extensions?

What does the afore mentioned NPPF document mean for householder applications? I can actually find very little information about the implications towards home extensions - the field i work in, can you point me in the right direction? Eddy

thanks woody, i though that was the case :)

Hello all, i'm sure this has been covered before but i am struggling to lay my hands on it. My client would like a front proch (requires planning) and a side extension (also requires planning), she is not sure whether they will be both done at the same time due to budget. My question is... if...

do you know where/how to find that on their website? In my experience, they aren't overly helpful! Newcastle upon Tyne (my area) especially! Would it just be a question of "does this property have permitted development rights intact?" Am i also correct that usually, even if PD have been...

Hello all, I am looking at becoming involved with a builder (i am an architectural technician) to design loft and garage conversions. Is there a simple way to find out whether PD rights are intact for a dwelling? I guess i will need to go to LA and ask them for each property? Eddy

i would automatically say no as it is a roof window, but then i know that planners (in England anyway) get very cautious about 'balconies'! might be worht a phone call to local planning officer - make it a general enquiry rather than for your specific property! please come back with anything...

i guess not, but they desribe what they are like up here!! a terrace of houses with rear offshoots containing kitchen & bathroom. My client owns the upper flat and want to extend the rear offshoot upto the rear boundary. Now do you have any experience???

Does anyone have any experience of extending an upper tyneside flat out to the rear?

i have looked at your sketches, i kind of agree with you about the windows, although i am struggling to get my head aroun why you think this extension is going to have people sat in it 24 hours a day looking into your bedrrom, listening to what you are saying when in your garden and playing...

this sounds like you might be a bit over sensitive! you are assuming that it is worse to be overhead from a bedroom than the neighbour sitting in their own garden. You call the extension overbearing but at the same time, it is lower than your patio. If the planning condition is that the roof...

no one can stop you but as the moderator says, there might be more people to give third, fourth, fifth (etc) opinions!

apologies for appearing underhanded, i was not thinking that at all! although i am willing to help others :) I guess the poster can u[pload photos to here?

did you object at the planning permission stage? i don't think you will be able to do anything now if it has been through the planning process and been approved. you can by all means send me a photo privately, either through this forum or through my website. Eddy