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What basically happened was that the Building Regulations dept. had an anonymous complaint from someone (we dont know who and we dont even know the nature of the complaint). Building Regs came and we gave them all the specifications and they were happy with what we had done but obviously said...

The mortgage company advised us to pull the extension down because it did not comply with current building regs. We assumed that as we were doing improving works and that an extension had been there for so long previously, it had obviously been cleared by planning and such, etc, some time...

It might seem like it, but we are very simply first time buyers who were advised to do something by our mortgage company and we did it. The extension is the same size as the estate agents measurements, so it is actually exactly the same size as the previous extension. The foundations are the...

The extension was torn down and rebuilt from scratch and I think the basic assumption was that because we had been asked to do so by our mortgage company we wouldn't need planning - especially as the extension is hardly any bigger than the original. Also, because the new extension was between 40...

This is where the difficulty arises - the old extension has been replaced by a new extension because my mortgage company set a proviso that the old extension be replaced before they would give us the monies to purchase.

I bought a property two years ago which had a very old extension attached to the back. I made renovations to the extension as instructed by my mortgage company and, having done so, have now discovered that the original extension was built over a drain and I have been informed by Building Regs...