Buying on floor space vs bedrooms

Waterlily24

Hi Lincroft, none of the property is near a boundary, we have a very large garden, about 100ft one side and two hundred the other side. The front and back aren't nearly as big but about 30ft at the front and 50 at the back. We have no very near neighbours but we do come under countryside where the rules for our council are different from
'normal'.

It took us over two years to get planning permission.

We could never understand why we could only increase the footprint by a third. We even thought of pulling the bungalow down and starting again
(which we nearly did anyway - we only had the walls left lol) but if we did that we would only have been allowed to increase the original ground floor area by a quarter. They wouldn't even let us go straight up to make it a house rather than a chalet.

It's very strange because although we live in a semi rural area and our road is classed as 'countryside' it's got all sorts of shapes and sizes of houses. It's a very long road with probably only 10/12 properties on it and all are very different, I think we are the only chalet bungalow but there is a good mixture of bungalows and houses.