Anyone build for ward of their property line ?

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House is a semi at the end of a road, so our garden is largely to the side of our house. The garden is wider at the front and we would like to extend into this, making an L shaped house. However, planning consultant has said that council may frown on this, even though it would impact any of our neighbours in terms of overlooking or light (in fact it would make some les overlooked). Anyone any experience of similar ?

To be clear we own all the land, and it's a 1980's boring brick terrace, we're also not in a conservation area.

Might it block sight lines for traffic coming round the corner?

No it's a dead end road, we're the last house and our garden is where the road would be if the street carried on.

I didn’t think planning were happy about changing the street line. If everyone started sticking extensions on the front, the street, and look of the area would change. For the same reason on our street you can’t change a hip roof to a gable for a loft extension.

IIRC they rarely will allow building in front of an established 'building line' for a house/street. Maybe for a porch, but I suspect you may have a hard time with an actual extension. I'd talk to a local professional planning advisor. I'd once have said have an informal chat with the council planning office, but certainly round here they don't do that any more. First they decided to charge for it, now they say they haven't the staff to do it at all. Unsurprising, as local councils' central funding has been cut by about 40%.

No they are unlikely to allow it, unless it's a porch or similar.

We have a restrictive covenant on ours saying you can't