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I was quite surprised to read recently that adding storeys to a house can be done under permitted development. The list of things one must adhere to also seems fairly lax, perhaps the most difficult one being "must make a successful prior approval application".
It seems like a fairly simple way to massively extend a house (a two storey house can be doubled to four storeys?!), subject to technicalities like foundation strength, without impinging on the garden space around it but only know of one house locally that was extended upwards; building a house around an existing bungalow then demolishing the bungalow seems more common.
As an operation, are you guys aware of it being done often? Are the challenges administrative (councils object for spurious reasons) or physical (foundations usually need underpinning
etc)? Is it one of those things that, on the face of it, seems like a good idea but brings with it a raft of challenges that are just too hard compared to gobbling or demo/rebuild?
It seems like a fairly simple way to massively extend a house (a two storey house can be doubled to four storeys?!), subject to technicalities like foundation strength, without impinging on the garden space around it but only know of one house locally that was extended upwards; building a house around an existing bungalow then demolishing the bungalow seems more common.
As an operation, are you guys aware of it being done often? Are the challenges administrative (councils object for spurious reasons) or physical (foundations usually need underpinning
etc)? Is it one of those things that, on the face of it, seems like a good idea but brings with it a raft of challenges that are just too hard compared to gobbling or demo/rebuild?