House has a 9ft by 5ft stained glass window in the stairwell. Its over sized / out of proportion.
Its not original to the house (you can see theyve had to shoehorn it into the eaves) and its not great. It has been there for a long time.
Having now lived here, it leaks in the rain amd wind blows through.
We are now replacing all windows in the house.
Question:
Do we need the replacement to be obscured? Same size, six panels of glass.
The planning portal says:
"insertion of new windows and doors that are of a similar appearance to those used in the construction of the house ...
If new windows are in an upper-floor side elevation they must be obscure-glazed and either non opening or more than 1.7 metres above the floor level"
We dont want obscured glazed, we want shutters. The current stained glass has a lot of clear glass and we can see straight out.
If, conversely, we were putting in this stained glass, there's no way you could say it was obscured. It has some coloured panels, majority clear with little artistic daubs...
For context, its the back of house and it looks out over 7m of garden to the side of a neighbours house. We see their hall windows, and, side kitchen door. None of their glazing is obscured.
So do we need pp for clear glass?
Neighbours dont mind clear (only they see it)
Is it worth the risk? We could add stick of frosting if we got an enforcement notice?
Thoughts?
Its not original to the house (you can see theyve had to shoehorn it into the eaves) and its not great. It has been there for a long time.
Having now lived here, it leaks in the rain amd wind blows through.
We are now replacing all windows in the house.
Question:
Do we need the replacement to be obscured? Same size, six panels of glass.
The planning portal says:
"insertion of new windows and doors that are of a similar appearance to those used in the construction of the house ...
If new windows are in an upper-floor side elevation they must be obscure-glazed and either non opening or more than 1.7 metres above the floor level"
We dont want obscured glazed, we want shutters. The current stained glass has a lot of clear glass and we can see straight out.
If, conversely, we were putting in this stained glass, there's no way you could say it was obscured. It has some coloured panels, majority clear with little artistic daubs...
For context, its the back of house and it looks out over 7m of garden to the side of a neighbours house. We see their hall windows, and, side kitchen door. None of their glazing is obscured.
So do we need pp for clear glass?
Neighbours dont mind clear (only they see it)
Is it worth the risk? We could add stick of frosting if we got an enforcement notice?
Thoughts?
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