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Hi,
Just found this site after poking around for people who have had the pleasure of knowing their planning permission is going to be rejected, and it seems theres been a few here.
Heres a bit about me / the project... im sure the next post will be Argggg plannings got rejected.
So my mid life crisis (43 years old, but its optimistic at this stage to say im making it to 86) is buying my parents house and renovating it, then extending it...
except as I was working last year I got very little of the renovation done.
The house was my home from when it was built (I was 1 at the time) until I travelled for work. It was a big house back then but feels small compared to what's being built everywhere now, normal stuff, small kitchen, bedrooms that a single bed and side board fit in and nothing else. but decent front and back garden and lots of potential.
Im an electrical/electronics engineer (actually do both professionally) so I have the stupid ethic that if I can do it I would rather try.. it aint the cheap route but Ill be a better man for it after... or dead. (I have no intention of building the house extension.... workshop maybeeeeee)
The renovation:
We are designing each room with provisions for lots (and I mean lots) of stupid things, lets say future proofing, but in reality Im old, no kids so lets just go crazy.
I have been doing a partial rewire (stupid house is wired diagonally front right to back left, top and bottom floors wired together, making the rewire on a room by room bases) and consumer unit change. (Earthsure, AFD on every circuit, RS485 power monitoring module)
Started with the small downstairs loo.. with consumer unit... and soil stack... and water. I want to say its done but it aint.
as mentioned, consumer unit changed, soil stack changed to get 50cm more space (wasnt worth it), changed to valsir Triplus Acoustic soil pipe. (not worth it and all the sizes are errr non-standard)
The property has the original wood windows, for the most part in great condition and they look so much better than the UPVC. bullseye glass in some parts, water ripple glass in others. So Im removing the windows and milling the frame out to take vacuumed insulated glass (PassivGlas) and then the original glass after it. This is working very well and looks good but takes ages.
Lounge now has my dream aquarium in it (700l tropical) which after adding 64 fish in batches of 12 since Jan I introduced an ill batch and have been fighting for a week to stop them all dying (im losing, and its cost hundreds.)
Gave my wife a craft room (main bed room), home office (bedroom 3) and a store room (bedroom 4), so ive been working from the dining room table.... which is now a library (mark 1, needs ripping out already)
The wife found an all in one "your design from concept to built" company and got moving on that, we took photos of the local houses that have been extended and said we want this from here and that from there, they said yeah sure lets stick it all in one application and go for it... something they say was stupid of us to do now.
Planning permission:
Its an extension over the attached double garage (final resting place for the wifes office and craft stuff
Changing the garage to be my home office / personal space.
Rear double story extension to give a kitchen below and fix the bedrooms above it.
The nice bits:
A rear work shop for my machining and bigger gadgets with a gym room thing attached to the side... in brick.
A front of property double garage, with provision for car lift and tool box heaven around the sides (reducing it to a single car size and space to work)
The design is in keeping with the original property, the front garden garage was done on other properties from new, the extension, although close to the neighbour is the same style as 10 others within a hundred meters of here.
The down side? It looks massive on paper, even though Ill still end up with a bigger garden front and back than the neighbours, and with the application now in the local council have put forward feedback to planning to reject it so thats not great, although Ill be hard pushed to find regulations that back up their comments.
our neighbour has put in two comments, which isnt great but if someone would just come out and look they would know its wrong, best one was it would "be a nightmare to live next too"... nice guy.
So anyway we are fully expecting to fight / make tweaks.... loose my shed, heh. If only they would come out and look.
The all in one company had to resubmit a few times because they made mistakes in the application, which is always a thing you like to see.
And in preparation they reached out to a person to help with the appeal and they came back today saying you will lose, so may not use them heh.
Ive got pics of the renovation so far (and the house being built originally hehe) but ill wrap up this long intro now.
Would love to hear from people who have done similar, especially if they just copied whats around and then got rejected, how did that go. (I know planning doesnt set precedent, and it shouldnt, but morals people, please)
Other than the above we:
got wine off the grape vine thats been at the house for 30 years, thast the first time ever... its not good so ill check the remaining bottles in 10 years.
bought a cigarette machine for my garage converted play room before they are illegal... and no I dont smoke but I dont like being told you cant.
did the conveyancing on the house ourselves (worked out well, and only did it because I was buying it off my dad and again you shouldnt tell someone you cant/shouldnt do that)
Go a 42u server rack set up in the garage with 1gb fibre installed. home assistant up and running, emby video server up and running, 70tb of on site storage... yeah I like my computers.
Provisioning for heat pumps (2) for temp/RH control in different rooms (I designed test chambers for a few years... not to self: -40 to 80C is not required)
Have a victorian house that I need to get rid of thats in an old mining town, so has errr issues.
Just found this site after poking around for people who have had the pleasure of knowing their planning permission is going to be rejected, and it seems theres been a few here.
Heres a bit about me / the project... im sure the next post will be Argggg plannings got rejected.
So my mid life crisis (43 years old, but its optimistic at this stage to say im making it to 86) is buying my parents house and renovating it, then extending it...
except as I was working last year I got very little of the renovation done.
The house was my home from when it was built (I was 1 at the time) until I travelled for work. It was a big house back then but feels small compared to what's being built everywhere now, normal stuff, small kitchen, bedrooms that a single bed and side board fit in and nothing else. but decent front and back garden and lots of potential.
Im an electrical/electronics engineer (actually do both professionally) so I have the stupid ethic that if I can do it I would rather try.. it aint the cheap route but Ill be a better man for it after... or dead. (I have no intention of building the house extension.... workshop maybeeeeee)
The renovation:
We are designing each room with provisions for lots (and I mean lots) of stupid things, lets say future proofing, but in reality Im old, no kids so lets just go crazy.
I have been doing a partial rewire (stupid house is wired diagonally front right to back left, top and bottom floors wired together, making the rewire on a room by room bases) and consumer unit change. (Earthsure, AFD on every circuit, RS485 power monitoring module)
Started with the small downstairs loo.. with consumer unit... and soil stack... and water. I want to say its done but it aint.
as mentioned, consumer unit changed, soil stack changed to get 50cm more space (wasnt worth it), changed to valsir Triplus Acoustic soil pipe. (not worth it and all the sizes are errr non-standard)
The property has the original wood windows, for the most part in great condition and they look so much better than the UPVC. bullseye glass in some parts, water ripple glass in others. So Im removing the windows and milling the frame out to take vacuumed insulated glass (PassivGlas) and then the original glass after it. This is working very well and looks good but takes ages.
Lounge now has my dream aquarium in it (700l tropical) which after adding 64 fish in batches of 12 since Jan I introduced an ill batch and have been fighting for a week to stop them all dying (im losing, and its cost hundreds.)
Gave my wife a craft room (main bed room), home office (bedroom 3) and a store room (bedroom 4), so ive been working from the dining room table.... which is now a library (mark 1, needs ripping out already)
The wife found an all in one "your design from concept to built" company and got moving on that, we took photos of the local houses that have been extended and said we want this from here and that from there, they said yeah sure lets stick it all in one application and go for it... something they say was stupid of us to do now.
Planning permission:
Its an extension over the attached double garage (final resting place for the wifes office and craft stuff
Changing the garage to be my home office / personal space.
Rear double story extension to give a kitchen below and fix the bedrooms above it.
The nice bits:
A rear work shop for my machining and bigger gadgets with a gym room thing attached to the side... in brick.
A front of property double garage, with provision for car lift and tool box heaven around the sides (reducing it to a single car size and space to work)
The design is in keeping with the original property, the front garden garage was done on other properties from new, the extension, although close to the neighbour is the same style as 10 others within a hundred meters of here.
The down side? It looks massive on paper, even though Ill still end up with a bigger garden front and back than the neighbours, and with the application now in the local council have put forward feedback to planning to reject it so thats not great, although Ill be hard pushed to find regulations that back up their comments.
our neighbour has put in two comments, which isnt great but if someone would just come out and look they would know its wrong, best one was it would "be a nightmare to live next too"... nice guy.
So anyway we are fully expecting to fight / make tweaks.... loose my shed, heh. If only they would come out and look.
The all in one company had to resubmit a few times because they made mistakes in the application, which is always a thing you like to see.
And in preparation they reached out to a person to help with the appeal and they came back today saying you will lose, so may not use them heh.
Ive got pics of the renovation so far (and the house being built originally hehe) but ill wrap up this long intro now.
Would love to hear from people who have done similar, especially if they just copied whats around and then got rejected, how did that go. (I know planning doesnt set precedent, and it shouldnt, but morals people, please)
Other than the above we:
got wine off the grape vine thats been at the house for 30 years, thast the first time ever... its not good so ill check the remaining bottles in 10 years.
bought a cigarette machine for my garage converted play room before they are illegal... and no I dont smoke but I dont like being told you cant.
did the conveyancing on the house ourselves (worked out well, and only did it because I was buying it off my dad and again you shouldnt tell someone you cant/shouldnt do that)
Go a 42u server rack set up in the garage with 1gb fibre installed. home assistant up and running, emby video server up and running, 70tb of on site storage... yeah I like my computers.
Provisioning for heat pumps (2) for temp/RH control in different rooms (I designed test chambers for a few years... not to self: -40 to 80C is not required)
Have a victorian house that I need to get rid of thats in an old mining town, so has errr issues.
