We are buying a house that needs total renovation.
It has been used, up til now, as 3 flats although I believe it was a house at some point. It needs knocking back into one family home. It needs everything doing to it and of course the internal layout needs changing. We'd like to create a loft room too. We won't be changing the external except for maybe a dormer.
Our builder and our architect say we probably won't need planning permission.
We're on a really tight timescale and budget and if we don't need planning brilliant. But I'm really worried about the council saying we have to knock it down if it transpires we did need planning.
What do you all think??