martynjl

We want to remove the entire rear wall of a old stone cottage, build an extension and reroof the whole thing as one. We will be getting a SE to do calcs at some point but trying to get my head around even if it's possible. Cottage has 500mm thick stone walls, we want to build an extension and take out the entire rear wall, and have one apex roof supported by existing wall and new extension wall. Making the current rear wall of the house redundant and the whole thing can be removed. I then intend to either use posi joists spanning the entire width or put a steel in to support floor joists. The top will be open plan bedrooms. Im worried about lateral support to end walls due to it being stone and not having the ability to bolt any windposts to it. Does a 500mm thick wall even need lateral support? The only way I can think of doing this, is to leave a 600mm return on each corner. But Not ideal as then we'd have wall jutting out in the middle of new bedrooms. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing?

@ProDaveyes, they turned down almost everything requested by the seller, the neighbours kicked off about everything so the curtilage ended up being more or less the outline of the house, garage and road. They've allowed only what they had to. Not even a small extension to the original building. The neighbours had a big say on it and when they could not get the application refused they played havoc with the plans and got everything reduced in size. Funny considering their massive "compounds" near by.

We're trying to buy a piece of land that has an old stone cottage on it that has full Planning for reinstatement. The planners have not allowed much to be altered at all and have removed PD rights and placed an article 3 directive on the curtilage of the plot. Which states: Article 3, Schedule 2, Part 1 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any Order revoking and re- enacting that Order with or without modification) no enlargements, improvements or other alterations to the dwelling house or any outbuildings shall be erected or constructed without the prior written approval of the Local Planning Authority. So I'm assuming this means we'd need permission for a static caravan to be placed on it during the build. Does this mean it could be refused? As we'd need to live there in order to proceed. I think they have tried to avoid anyone doing this by making the curtilage basically the same size of the house and garage and not leaving any room to put one there. We could put one where the garage is to be built. Build the house then move in and replace the static with the garage. It's got me worried by the fact they seem to have to tried to avoid this situation by not including none of the 3.5 acres in the curtilage. Can anyone offer an advice?