Extension

croyland87

Hi I am looking at extending a bedroom on my house its a double bedroom and I want to extend it to the size of another bedroom below it will be the dinning room. what will it cost on average as there are no foundations to make just a room on top of another room and will i need planning permission. Thank you

Davesnave

Do you know that the foundations and walls of the bit you intend to build above are capable of supporting it?

To meet building regulations they will have to be, so costs will depend quite heavily on that!

croyland87

Davesnave wrote: »

Do you know that the foundations and walls of the bit you intend to build above are capable of supporting it?

To meet building regulations they will have to be, so costs will depend quite heavily on that!

I am not aware if the room will be able to hold it the bedroom to be extended above.

planning_officer

It's impossible to say whether you'll need planning permission for this - as it depends on where your house is, how near the boundary the extension will be and whether the house has been extended before.

Davesnave

croyland87 wrote: »

I am not aware if the room will be able to hold it the bedroom to be extended above.

If the house is relatively recent, the council may have details of the construction of the foundations in its records.

If not, the only way to check foundations is by digging down beside them to measure their extent and depth.

As planning officer says, no one can tell you whether PP will be needed without accurate details of your house.

croyland87

planning_officer wrote: »

It's impossible to say whether you'll need planning permission for this - as it depends on where your house is, how near the boundary the extension will be and whether the house has been extended before.

The room that I want the bedroom extended on to is a extension its not a original part of the house the property was built in 1933 and the extension was done in in 1995 I was told this info by the previous owner. And i live in Northamptonshire.

Davesnave

It's likely that the council will have records of the work done in 1995 if it was signed-off properly.

As to the need for planning permission, your best bet is to look at the Interactive House on the planning Portal:

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/house

cyclonebri1

Davesnave wrote: »

It's likely that the council will have records of the work done in 1995 if it was signed-off properly.

As to the need for planning permission, your best bet is to look at the Interactive House on the planning Portal:

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/house

Unlikely in my view, we were told 5 years max. BUT, it simply doesn't matter.
You have to expose the foundations either internally or externally about the walls you wish to build on. BC will then say if they are substantial or otherwise.

Davesnave

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Unlikely in my view, we were told 5 years max. BUT, it simply doesn't matter.
You have to expose the foundations either internally or externally about the walls you wish to build on. BC will then say if they are substantial or otherwise.

You'd know better than me. Limited experience.

Here, I had to expose footings in 3 places: original build front & back + extension. A second extension done in 2004 was deemed to be OK, as building control had seen it all and signed it off. The plans are all there on-line.

An earlier one, done pre-computers, was kinda special, with over 2 metre deep foundations and an underground bridge. I wouldn't want to expose those!:rotfl:

planning_officer

My Council has all plans for every application in the District scanned on the website going back to 1980. So you might be able to see exactly what got planning permission in 1995.


It's still impossible to answer the planning permission enquiry - how near the boundary will the extension be? Also, will it solely be located to the side of the original dwelling, i.e. not projecting to the front or rear? Also, do you live in a conservation area or AONB?

cyclonebri1

planning_officer wrote: »

My Council has all plans for every application in the District scanned on the website going back to 1980. So you might be able to see exactly what got planning permission in 1995.


It's still impossible to answer the planning permission enquiry - how near the boundary will the extension be? Also, will it solely be located to the side of the original dwelling, i.e. not projecting to the front or rear? Also, do you live in a conservation area or AONB?

I'm amazed and disgusted at that. I almost got into dispute with my next doors. The issue was where I suspected they had sited their soakaway, I was rebuilding our retaining wall and they were 4ft higher than us.

The whole lot collapsed onto my drive as the soakaway that was supposed to be 5m from either property was only 2m from his and right up to my boundary wall. It was infact only 3m from the corner of my house:eek::eek:

This was only in 2012 and the extension on their side that this soakaway served was built 6 years prior to that.
I went to the LA offices and reported the issue and asked to see the building control drawings. I was told that in our area after 5 years they would no longer hold records. I think I have been bull sh!!!!!!!!en:mad::mad:

Anyway matter resolved, house changed hands and new neighbours managed to get a reduction using the info supplied against the asking price. Drains are now fixed;)