Help with making an offer - possibilty of no planning permission...

sweettirana

Hi All,

OH and I want to put an offer on a house and our absolute max is a penny less than £125k due to us being a next time buyer and not wanting to go over the stamp duty threshold - we simply can not get hold of the money for it!

Here are the facts:

• House originally on market for £140k in April
• Reduced to £130k in August
• House exactly the same in the same street sold for £125k in 2008 (which I believe was the start of the downfall, but prices are lower now than then - am I right??)

Another important question - we don't know if this could end up costing us a lot of money!

The house has a conservatory on the back, however it doesn't have a door between the original house and the property which I have found out online needs planning permission and they didn't have any.

• What are the implications of this?
• Would we need to seek it retrospectively? How much does this cost? (ballpark)
• Worst comes to worst, could planning be refused and we would have to remove the conservatory and make good the external walls?
• Could we put doors in ourselves and there would be no need for planning permission?
• Does this have any effect on us getting the mortgage on the property?

Should the conservatory issue be reflected in the offer that we make? Is it a big issue?

Sorry for the long post..... I just remember Cliff Richard being told to take his conservatory down as he didn't have planning permission and he has far more cash than us! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Thanks for any advice you may have....................... :j

Doozergirl

Depends which end of 2008 it sold. 2007 was peak.

You wouldn't need PP, it would be Building Control Approval. If they put doors between main house and conservatory it needs neither regs or PP. If it's a regular conservatory with a polycarbonate roof there is not a chance it will comply with regs if it's open because of the heat loss.