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Thanks. I called Building Control and spoke to the person in charge of our area. He did suggest an alternative measure that will be acceptable, with wired smoke alarms in every room, closers on all doors into stairwell and fully openable windows in bedrooms on the 1st floor (providing the...

According to the 2010 Building regs we will have to replace all our lovely original Victorian doors with fire doors in order to provide a protected fire escape to our new loft conversion. Whilst I appreciate these rules are there to protect us it seems like such a waste to me. We had to jump...

Just to say that the Planning Committee meeting took place last Thursday. We had our 3 minutes and our Councillor had 5 mintutes. We presented pictures of the various dormers on our street etc. Guess what!!! the committee went against the planning officers recommendation and gave us...

Thanks for all your comments and advice. We have re-submitted our application for planning and with our local Councillor's support it has be called in to the next planning committee meeting this Thursday. We have 3 minutes to show photos and present local material evidence in support of our...

Earlier this year we submitted a planning application that proposed a loft conversion with a dormer to the rear that matched our immediate neighbours dormer and at least 13 other dormers on our street. All are tastefully designed with pitched roofs and brick front work. All of these dormers...