Planning application and roof

gemgemsb

Definitely the original roof, although you couldn!!!8217;t tell it wasn!!!8217;t red clay both roofs were so covered in moss and both need replacing.

The survey I had when I brought the house said it needed replacing and said it was concrete, so perhaps the neighbor is wrong stating it!!!8217;s clay. Either way they don!!!8217;t match the old tiles.

I just drove down my road and we have the exact same house as mine semi detached that!!!8217;s just had a new purple coloured roof!!! Driving home from work there are a number of semi detached houses in the area that don!!!8217;t have matching tiles.

We went with concrete instead of slate as the builder said the profiles would match up better than slate.

Tbh the neighbour seemed ok when I spoke to him he was even talking about getting the builder to convert his house. But he!!!8217;s still insisting on a meeting with the suveyor. I!!!8217;m not so much worried about him more the fact that I have a roof that I don!!!8217;t have planning permission for.

I think I will have to speak to the council and submit an amendment and hope they approve it. I don!!!8217;t want to leave this hanging over my head with the threat of it coming up at any time.

I definitely want to to everything by the book - should I need to re roof I will have to go after the arcitiect for the money.

Thanks everyone

parking_question_chap

So you have a decision which says one thing and a list of approved drawing that say another. I dont think it would be that easy for them to serve an enforcement notice on you given it sounds like they have issued a contradictory document. Potentially it would be reasonable not to do anything and just see if they contact you first, they you could ask them how they intend to rectify the mistake.

What does the streetscene look like? is yours the only house that stands out?

gemgemsb

Yes that’s right the notice says one thing the plans say another one.

The houses down the road are all different, some of the semi detached houses have different roofs to the ones a joining them.

Thrugelmir

gemgemsb wrote: »

Yes that’s right the notice says one thing the plans say another one.

The houses down the road are all different, some of the semi detached houses have different roofs to the ones a joining them.

We've recently replaced our roof. Different colour to neighbour. No issues. The red will fade in time.

lincroft1710

gemgemsb wrote: »

I think I will have to speak to the council and submit an amendment and hope they approve it. I don!!!8217;t want to leave this hanging over my head with the threat of it coming up at any time.

Unless your neighbour complains to the planners, they won't realise that there has been a mistake. This is one occasion where you should not be proactive.

Newuser1987

Just to be clear the application form means nothing now the decision has been issued. Only what is listed in the decision notice needs to be referenced. If they have made reference to the application form in the list of approved documents then there is a conflict but it is very rare that councils make reference to the application form.

The application form is only used as a guidance for the planning officer and not normally a binding document. As an example planning drawings can change during the process of the application and the application form would not be updated.

In your decision notice it would say something to this effect:
The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in strict accordance with the following list of approved drawings. [insert list of drawings].

Quite often there will also then be a condition for materials to match the existing materials. This is only for materials not listed in the drawings. If the architect has listed the correct material in the drawings I would not be worried at all.

Firstly ignore what it says in the application form as this has no bearing whatsoever. If your drawing shows the correct material then there is no issue.

The only way the planners could force you to change is to issue an enforcement notice. This would be incredibly unlikely as they would be serving an enforcement notice against their own decision.

I am an architect who very often specifies materials which do not match existing materials so I am quite familiar with these situations.