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Property in Conservation Area - works done without permission
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People who install PVC-u windows in lieu of the original timber sashes without planning permission when it's required deserve to be thrown under the bus.
However I'm going through my own personal window nightmare in a conservation area because muggins me decided to do the right thing and apply for permissions and incompetent council planning staff don't understand what a CLD is and how to apply section 55 of the T&CPA 1990.
My advice would always be to change with like for like without telling the council. Can always ask for forgiveness after the fact.0 -
That'll be a listed building though, rather than merely one in a Conservation Area?
In my previous house, both listed and in a Conservation area, we couldn't replace the Georgian sash windows at all. We had to have secondary glazing instead which actually worked really well. It meant that all the draughts and noise were kept out but we could open the secondary glazing to have the draughts on warm / hot days!
Here I now live in a listed building and have installed wooden sash windows with double glazing as replacements for the old ones. Not as noise free as UPVC ones would be but that's the deal, and the noise is only from bulls, cows, flocks of geese, upset sheep and the odd rumble of tractors. Nothing to disturb.0 -
In my previous house, both listed and in a Conservation area, we couldn't replace the Georgian sash windows at all.
This is similar to my dispute with the council. By law no planning authority can stop you from replacing windows that do not materially affect the external appearance of the building.
However there is no statuary definition of "material change" but unfortunately there are extremely snitty, overzealous planning officials that like to be as unreasonable as possible and interpret any change from single to double glazing as a material change.0
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