I have lived in my current house for 6 years. I love the neighbourhood and we got on with our neighbours.
We have recently decided to ttc4 and we either need to extend our current house or move. We got an architect down who told us that as our house had a low roof?!?, we can't do a loft conversion and the only thing we could do is go over our drive (car port with a bedroom over). We are semi detached as are our neighbours but between us there is our drive and their drive. As far as we are aware, it will cut out little light and won't overlook them at all.
We told them our plans and they said they wouldn't be happy about it. We looked into lots of other things and looked around a few houses but found no other way to do it. We went ahead with the planning permission and when they got their letter, they both came around and started shouting at us. Apparently we are going to make it seem like we live in terraced houses, even though they will still have a full drive in between the new extension and their house. I said that we had looked at other options but this is the only one we could do and they said that we could move.
AIBU to think that if our planning gets passed then I should be able to do what I want on my own property.
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jesterjangles · 22/06/2011 13:19
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