Redbridge Planning

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Hello, we are in the process of buying a house and want to do extensive renovations before we move in.

Its a three bed semi with over 100ft garden. We are hoping to get planning permission for a full height loft conversion and a double storey side and rear extension. Obviously this is the dream and we may be restricted by permissions and any reservations our potential neighbours my have.

Does anyone have an experience of putting planning applications in at Redbridge Council or know if they are generally quite open to large scale extensions such as this?
Any tips on how to get planning applications through are also welcome!

My council shows all planning applications and the status of them - inc objection letters.

Have a look at the council site for plans submitted and what has been accepted or rejected in the local area. It gives an indication as to what the council finds acceptable.

If you just persist, Redbridge, or most London Boroughs will allow anything- talk to the planners at the Town Hall.

I have a relative in LBR and from their back garden I can see extensions I would never have thought permissible. Huge loft extensions, huge full width rear extensions taking up large portions of the rear gardens, back gardens used as paved car parks.

Neighbours' objections are ignored anyway.

Anything goes!

@VeThings I have had a look and and it seems single storey and loft extensions are approved majority of the time. Double storey extensions have less of a success rate

@Malvinaa81 That’s good to know! We already factored in the fact that we may have to go back and forth a bit but if we can get everything approved it will mean that the house will be ultimately be our forever home

You want to find and read the"local plan" and any other supplementary planning documents from the council. All councils are obliged to produce one which basically describes the overall strategy for allowing development while preserving the character and amenity of the area wherever it is in the borough. If you follow that then they pretty much have to allow it, even if as mentioned you would have to go back and forth.
As mentioned don't worry too much about neighbour objections from a planning point of view as the planning decision is based on the development not people's opinions of it. But it would pay to keep them onside when it comes to the actual building work in case you need to use skips or parking.