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Demolish or partially demolish and rebuild.
Mgman1965
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Does anyone know if it's easier planning permission wise to partiality demolish a house and extensively rebuild, than to completely demolish and start again ?
I ask as I've been watching two houses on my way to work for months now and can't understand how either would have been really worth doing.
1/ Small unmodernised bungalow on odd shaped medium sized plot. Sold, then watched it systematically demolished basically leaving the front door and a few feet of wall either side and odd internal wall.
It's now a full size two storey house, albeit now with no garden as such anymore.
2/ 1940's detatched house externally very presentable, roof totally removed and large extensions to both sides, and huge rear extension and new roof with loft rooms and dormers.
I would have thought it would have been possibly cheaper and less work to just bulldoze the houses and start totally afresh as they haven't retained any of either houses layout, character or any such thing.
So is it easier to get planning permission to make major structural changes even if you only retain a very small part of the original building, than to demolish, clear the site and start again with a total new build.
Wondered if it was a get around where you wouldn't get permission for a total new build in an area, to retain a minimal amout of the original house, so not classed as a new build which would get you permission.
I ask as I've been watching two houses on my way to work for months now and can't understand how either would have been really worth doing.
1/ Small unmodernised bungalow on odd shaped medium sized plot. Sold, then watched it systematically demolished basically leaving the front door and a few feet of wall either side and odd internal wall.
It's now a full size two storey house, albeit now with no garden as such anymore.
2/ 1940's detatched house externally very presentable, roof totally removed and large extensions to both sides, and huge rear extension and new roof with loft rooms and dormers.
I would have thought it would have been possibly cheaper and less work to just bulldoze the houses and start totally afresh as they haven't retained any of either houses layout, character or any such thing.
So is it easier to get planning permission to make major structural changes even if you only retain a very small part of the original building, than to demolish, clear the site and start again with a total new build.
Wondered if it was a get around where you wouldn't get permission for a total new build in an area, to retain a minimal amout of the original house, so not classed as a new build which would get you permission.
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