Architect charging more for reapplying a rejected planning application.

teneighty

I would tend to agree with ManofLeisure.

I had a similar situation, awkward neighbour complained about new first floor windows so I rotated layout to make offending windows the en-suite and dressing room with obscure glass and put the bedroom at the back.

Probably took half a day to re-design and I did not charge extra.

Personally I would rather have a happy client and have had repeat business and many recommendations from them that far exceed the additional fee I could have charged.

I guess your architect is just being rather short sighted or maybe I'm too soft. I would only charge if changes were a result of client changing their mind or Planners going back on previous pre-planning advice.

chappers

teneighty wrote: »

Planners going back on previous pre-planning advice.

and therein lies the big question, was any pre-app advice sought, often also planning departments come back to the applicant, if they are likely to deny an application and often give the applicant the chance to withdraw and re-submit.

Not entirely relevant, but overlooking is an issue that really annoys me, unless in a very secluded rural area we are all overlooked or overlook someone else to some degree.

I am allowed to put a loft conversion on my property under PD and put whatever windows in I like and overlook whoever I like, yet when it comes to a 2 storey extension, there are rules and conditions galore and it's pretty much becoming the norm that it's just not allowed.

Last year I built a courtyard bungalow on a back garden plot, the planners turned down the initial design for the windows on the two non-courtyard sides, due to potential overlooking and we had to redesign with windows above eyelevel. The two sides in question were flanked by 6ft high wooden fences two and a half feet away from the windows. The only thing you could overlook was the neighbours fence. Total madness.