The proposed building work on my house has been in the planning stages for what seems like forever. How complicated is it these days to get work done to the outside of your house, I had no idea. My house is an unattractive 1970's semi. It has square edges and little character. The problems with planning that we have had you would think it was a listed Jacobean cottage. The garage juts out at the front of the house and we thought we would bring the rest of the house to meet it with a symmetrical line, matching window and sympathetic new tiled roof, just as several people in the road have already done. Not allowed. Why? Not in keeping with the road. Ok so the road is not in keeping with itself. There are 4/5 different types of house in the small cul-de-sac and we face some low level flats and terraced 3 storey houses. Over the years lots of building work has gone on, some sympathetically some just plain ugly but the result is a higgeldy piggedly array in a patchwork quilt type display. The planning officer though he say no! New rules since 2007 apparently (shutting gate after horse has bolted) so we can't change our house to look like the nice looking ones in our road. We appealled, we lost. This all cost money. The jutty out bit has to stay as does the garage door. More money for new plans. Finally we are due to start work on the revised plan.
I am excited but also scared of the magnitude and mess. I have virtual shopped and planned so many times, changed my mind, changed it back again, it's difficult to accept its about to happen and I have to commit myself and make decisions. So it's farewell to my retro mustard 70's kitchen which has been in so long it's come back in fashion and hello to dust and eventual modern appliances. Let the work begin....
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