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No, it was there already when we bought the house.

Ok thanks, so any extension would need to follow the current rules. I'm not sure I understand the point about subjective opinions, the council's own planning decisions frequently refuse extensions on the grounds of them having an unacceptable impact on a neighbouring property, or being out of...

I live in a terraced house. The attached neighbour has a large full width ground floor rear extension which is a bit of an eyesore and has a significant negative impact on our property. There is no record of the extension on the local authority planning portal, and I am pretty sure it would not...

Very helpful thanks. The example in your last paragraph sounds similar to what we were hoping to do, although our house is end terrace, not detached. Basically the volume restriction under PD means we can’t extend the dormer out over the outrigger, even though that’s the standard approach to...

I’m not sure what you mean, do you mean the aerial satellite image?

Our Council's approach seems to be that extension of the new roof can be treated as PD, but we need to include the additional volume associated with the ridge raise as part of the calculation. This is the bit which is creating issues for us - if we didn't have to include the volume associated...

We were following the same approach as had been successfully used for a house in the next street - they got householder planning permission for a ridge raise only, and then separately applied for PD for the dormer loft conversion (but did the construction as a single project). However they were...

We want to convert the loft on our Victorian end terrace house to add a master bedroom and ensuite. For some reason best known to the Victorians our original roof design is different from all other houses in the street and immediate neighbourhood. In addition to having a hip roof it also has an...