Hi all,
I am hoping someone can come along and offer some advice as I seem to have an architect who is bad at communicating and may also not know what he's doing... and I am now in a panic ! :(
I've attached pictures of the original plan and also the extension. You can see in the original plan, that the house has been extended to the side, beyond the original side line of the house and this was done under permission.
So my architect said that since we are doing a rear extension of 6m, that falls under permitted developement (PD) as opposed to needing planning permissions. Everything was submitted end of Dec and we were hoping to get everything approved by now. Then this morning, when the architect called the council, they said it was rejected :( :( :( (this is the Bromley council btw)
My council apparently told my architect that it will be approved only if we demolish the existing side extension - where the WC is. This didn't make any sense to me as the current extension has already been approved by the council!
So I called the council myself and they said that under permitted developement, the rear extension cannot touch the side extension even if the side extention was previously approved. They also said that this is the rule and the architect should have known not to submit this as a 'permitted developement' project! I have also read on a few other websites and they all seem to say the same thing.
My architect keeps on insisting that this rule falls under a grey area and every council interprets it differently! Is that so???
Also, he is saying that if we want to stick to our 6 m extention, then we should do what the council is saying and knock down the existing side extention.
So then I told him, why can't we just submit this as a proper planing permission and keep the side extension... he says that under planning permission I can only get a rear extension of 4 m... is that correct ???
I don't know what to do next :( :(
Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance :)
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Council just rejected my extension plans !!! Help !!! :((((
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mumtosp · 09/02/2016 17:47
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