Help: Planning application for two storey extension

In article , IMM writes

Just as I thought, you don't open your eyes, typical townie dragged up in an inner city flat.

Bertie, you are confused. You are a Philistine.

As you would say, look harder. They exist, if you think they don't then you have to prove it. LOL

MBQ

Prove to me there is beauty around Aylesbury. I'm sure many other would like to know too.

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I had exactly the same problem, i just went to planning, drawings in hand and had a meeting with them , problem solved it seemed as if you put up a reasonable arguement they will roll over, this happened three times duing the build of the extension and I won each time. Ive since built a self build and they where not as willing to talk on that but thats another story no pun intended! Rob

I will bet I even know which LA you are in They have this crazy theory that setting back makes extentions subserviant

Defeated that nonsense on appeal

Tell me what area you are in then i might be able to give you a precedent number you can quote them

subserviant

Somehow I doubt that you know which LA it is as loads of them have this policy: type "side extension setback planning" into Google and several references on the first page spell this out, e.g Trafford

"EITHER a minimum space of 1m should be preserved between the extension and the party boundary to the side of the property, OR the front wall of the first floor of the extension should be set back at least 1m from the immediately adjoining part of the main front wall of the original dwelling.

The above requirement may be relaxed if, because of a staggered or irregular arrangement of the dwellings in the street, the construction of the extension would not create an actual or potential terracing effect"

I don't doubt that in a particular case you might win on appeal, but I would only expect to win if you can argue that the general policy has been misapplied in the particular case being appealed.

If you want real daftness wrt 2-storey side extensions, a relative's one was turned down because it represented an unacceptable extension into the Green Belt (the existing house was a small cottage in GB). A single storey side extension taking up the same footprint was allowed as the amount of additional floorspace was within permitted limits.

was defeated at appeal .......just had a sensible Appeals Inspector and went round the area photographing all the extensions that were not setback ........all those that looked ghastly ........matched them to their planning numbers and plotted them on a map ........the Inspector did a tour of the area the night before the Informal hearing and we really did not need to try too hard to put our case

The alternative was £4000 for an expert !!!!!!

Its always worth doing your homework , taking photos of the Good the bad and the ugly ,with some time, thought and commonsense theres no reason why you cant win your case ........most of it gets done in the written submission you make anyway

No, I'm going to keep it for myself and others who know how to appreciate it. You would only want to come and build on it.

MBQ

What lines of argument did you find effective with this issue?

BTW: Why did you have problems during the build? Surely the planning issues would have been sorted out before you started?

OP.