RGriff

We were going to put a new roof on while we undertook the dormer, so would use the same roof tiles to hang on the dormer.

The roof conversion and dormer are only on the original floor plans and not going out onto the ground floor extensions if that helps?

Thanks, would there be any reason it wouldn’t fall under PD? It’s just a straight forward hip to gable roof change and small rear dormer

Hi, we were recently refused planning permission for a side extension based on the fact we were changing the original roof from a hip to gable, despite numerous attempts to change the plans, we are likely not able to obtain planning for the second floor side extension without dropping the roof line and keeping the old hip roof form completely. This wouldn’t enable us to build our dormer roof extension at the back, so are now going for just the hip to gable roof conversion and a rear dormer on the existing house plans under PD. There are 3 ground floor extensions, all of which were through planning permission pre 2007, therefore PD has never been used before, the dormer and roof change will be less the 50m3 together, with the dormer 200m from the eaves. Being that this will then fall under PD, can we start before the certificate is given? The whole planning issues have set us back, so we need to start in 6 weeks, but the planning department are around 6 weeks behind meaning we have another 11 weeks until we have our decision. Would there be any way this could be refused? Would it be ok to start building in 6 weeks?