21 May 2025

A new planning application 25/01547 has just been submitted for a roof extension.

This application has a strange history. 

On the 20 Feb 2025 a Lawful Certificate was requested and we commented on the 10th March that refusal was inevitable.  Indeed, LBB refused the request on 15th April.  Yet building work actually commenced  5 days earlier on 10th April (!?).  Why one would do this is unclear. Having discovered that the building work would not be permitted development, a planning application (details above) was submitted on 25th April to seek retrospective permission.  At the time of writing, the work is well


advanced.  Unfortunately the property is in the Shortlands Village Conservation Area and it is quite possible that the application will be refused.  Were a refusal upheld at Appeal, the extension would have to be removed.