Conservation area-likelihood the conservatory can be replaced by extension?

ellie27

Really love our new house, we hope to be in mid-June.

We are not buying the house with the plan to extend or anything.

There is a conservatory and perhaps at some point might put in for planning permission to change it to an extension.

We are in a conservation area.

What are the chances of getting it granted, assuming all other conditons are met eg the style of it etc? Although it is a conservation area folk are building extensions around. Thanks

eddddy

Your local council will probably have a conservation area policy which is likely to be available on their website.

I guess it also depends on the conservatory. If it is an original feature that is in keeping with the character of the area, the council planners may resist its removal.

If it is a modern, unsympathetic addition, they are likely to support it's replacement by a sympathetic, 'authentic looking' extension.

G_M

Go and talk to the planners......

AlexMac

Pending a chat with Planners, look at 'permitted development rights' on the government site, and have hours of harmless fun with the little pictorial planning tool at
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/house

These rights are sometimes suspended in a Conservation area, but not always. We live in a conservation area, for example, but our local Council have not waived permitted development rights so we can automatically extend without a planning application, subject to the limits described above. Building regs approval is of course still required , so you'll still need to deal with the Council or alternatively, an independently appointed cowboy (sorry, I mean independent Building Control advisor)