We have a chalet bungalow in the green belt (but substantially built up frontage). The house has already been extended to approx 60% increase in size of the original house in the 1940s and is just more than the average volume of the adjacent houses.
2 bedrooms upstairs have a very low ceiling on one side and we want to extend the hipped roof to a gable end to make these ceilings higher (DC will have to crouch out of bed before they can stand up). It’s ok as they are small currently so the ceiling height is fine but as they get older, they will need it to be higher.
Pre planning at the council stated we can’t do this as although we are only extending the ceiling height of 1 wall, it adds to the volume of the house which has already been exceeded. They said we can remove Volume elsewhere in the house to do this but the house is not huge and we need all the space we currently have. Do we need to sell up or has anyone managed to get round this somehow?