Build between two existing dormers

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We live in an area that is very competitive to buy and have struggled to purchase a new house. We're now chucking money down the drain in rent when we have quite a good stack of cash to buy with.

There have been a number of good reasons that we haven't been quick off the mark - mostly headspace as we move had to move jobs and we have two children, both of whom have varying additional needs.

Things feel more settled now and we're determined to buy asap but the market has totally dried up except for the dregs.

There is a terraced house we think would be alright. Its on a really popular road so we weren't sure why it's still on. The agent basically said its because the houses either side has dormers and their experience is that you won't easily be able to then build one too. If you do it won't be full width. Seems a waste to spend £85k+ on a narrow room in a house that isn't exactly wide to begin with.

I feel that this can't be true - I've seen rows of dormers on streets. Surely a full width dormer is possible even if you're filling in a gap?

Has anyone done this? Is it actually not possible? Was it a total pain?

Thanks

This is the house - you can see in one of the pictures that both houses have dormers. We'd want to build an L shaped dormer too, ideally attaching to the existing ones to prevent creating gaps that aren't easily accessible for maintenence
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/154507424

You would need a party wall act and permission from the neighbours but I think only the councilmwould be able to say whether you will get permission for this. Could you pay for advice before planning permission? It costs a couple of hundred pounds and you can even apply for planning permission on buildings that you don't own so I am sure they would give you advice.

I would ask the planning people if they can see why planning permission would NOT be granted. That shouldn't cost anything (but doesn't mean you would actually get permission either).

You might want to look at the planning applications for the two ajoining properties online. You can usually download the plans as PDFs.

Thanks both.
I've already spoken to the council who said I wouldn't need planning permission for a dormer - an actually I don't know anyone who hasn't just done it via permitted development.

I have spoken to a couple of builders though, who have answered my question - it is likely to be a difficult job, very unlikely that it would end up being full width unless we have very nice neighbours on both sides and both companies said they wouldn't be interested in taking it on. So, we've decided to just walk away from the house and continue to look

We live in bungalow which has had dormer added, not full width of property. Our internal rooms downstairs are 21ft plus internal wall width. The width of our two bedrooms upstairs approx 17ft, although we do have a piece further back in our bedroom that is taken to the party wall, which accommodates the width of our wardrobes and long mirror. We do have a bathroom on the front (the other side of our bedroom), so could be that you could go further back into the roofspace for more room.