We wanted a loft conversion, called the town planning department to be told it could be done under permitted development and no planning permission was required, so we started work. Two weeks off finishing, the council wrote to us after someone complained stating that we do need planning permission as we are in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. We have stopped work but have spent about £15k so far, and are now getting consultants in to put together our planning permission request.
The bottom has fallen out of my world, the DS's are sharing a room, we have a half-finished loft and may have to put it back to how it was, which we can't afford.
If the council had originally said we needed planning permission, we would have requested it before we started any work, but they said we didn't need it. Now we do.
I feel sick and can't eat, or sleep. Have to keep going for the 2 DS's though. Why does this always happen to us?
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B52s · 17/08/2012 14:17
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