We have been following kingston councils advice throughout our extension build and they constantly contradict themselves, and I was hoping to get some advice here.
We applied for planning for a single story rear, two story side extension with a loft conversion on our 1930's home. This was rejected due to the general size of the proposal. So we went it the council and the planner told us to resubmit, reducing the rear extension from 5 to 4 meters and take the dormer off and to do that under lawful development. The second planning submission was then approved.
So we then did as we were advised and put in an LD application for the dormer and this was then rejected as apparently the 50sm also includes any roof space that's not the original house. The approved roof space pretty much negates our ability to put a dormer on.
We were then advised that if we do the dormer before the extension we would be ok. A week later we phone them up and they have changed their minds and we were told that we won't be able to do a dormer without going back and resubmitting our original plans which have already been rejected, which is a pointless exercise.
There's two other builds going on in the street doing exactly what we asked to do, but as they got approval a year ago, they are allowed and we're not.
Not sure what to do now, seems that the council are not sure how to implement the policy and the three planners we've consulted with all have different opinions on it.
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We applied for planning for a single story rear, two story side extension with a loft conversion on our 1930's home. This was rejected due to the general size of the proposal. So we went it the council and the planner told us to resubmit, reducing the rear extension from 5 to 4 meters and take the dormer off and to do that under lawful development. The second planning submission was then approved.
So we then did as we were advised and put in an LD application for the dormer and this was then rejected as apparently the 50sm also includes any roof space that's not the original house. The approved roof space pretty much negates our ability to put a dormer on.
We were then advised that if we do the dormer before the extension we would be ok. A week later we phone them up and they have changed their minds and we were told that we won't be able to do a dormer without going back and resubmitting our original plans which have already been rejected, which is a pointless exercise.
There's two other builds going on in the street doing exactly what we asked to do, but as they got approval a year ago, they are allowed and we're not.
Not sure what to do now, seems that the council are not sure how to implement the policy and the three planners we've consulted with all have different opinions on it.
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