Actually it's not quite planning permission... but I wondered if there was anyone who knows about this sort of thing!
Our flat is part of a council block and so we are leaseholders and the local authority are our freeholders (i.e. our landlord). We want to do some internal restructuring and engaged an architect who drew up plans which we then submitted to the freeholder to apply for a Licence for Alteration.
After much to-ing and fro-ing, the council have finally refused permission. It seems that a key element of our proposal is against their policy and that is that.
What I am frustrated about is that it was our architect who advised us to include this element and she came up with the proposal and drew up the plans. My question is, am I wrong to expect her to have known about the council policy (or at least researched it in advance). We've incurred quite a few costs so far which we could have avoided if we'd known our plans were likely to be refused... or we could have at least waited. Anyway, I'm just interested in what any MN architects (or anyone who had used one!) think about this - was I expecting too much?