The fruits of perseverence!

I am thrilled to announce that after a couple of tensed months......
A quick glance at the planning website this morning has revealed some rather good news.

WE HAVE GOT GREEN LIGHT FROM THE PLANNING DEPARTEMENT!!!!! 

Given initial discussions with some agents, the approval (of additional 1500 sq feet) is giving instantly ..... Without any actual building work, a healthy six figure sum increase in value.

one side of me is saying "go and cash in now". Another is saying ...

 "Come on whack it all the way through". 

More to come on the decision making  in a next post .... 

For now....  A small celebratory drink is on the cards!  ( thanks for the prayers!) 

Pray for us.

Today is a nerve racking day.

My apologies if I have not posted for. While but after the last "feedback letter" from the council that pretty much said the proposal would not be acceptable as is..... We had to get back to the drawing board and quickly get revisions to the scheme actioned. (More or less a week to turn it around)

A light report was required ( from an expert to prove enough light would be available in the basement)

And changes to bulk and massing of the proposed extension.... Less sq ft and in my opinion less character ... But so be it!!!
It needs to go through...
Then will work on detailing and make the scheme special anyway!

So here it is today is the deadline for the revision and.... All the needfulll is being submitted in an hour.

Moral support welcome!

Gambling.

Today. I thought I need to give some background info on the vital "planning permission". (for which we are currently eagerly awaiting an answer from the local authorities)

I appreciate this is not necessarily a entertaining subject; but hopefully a hardly veiled undertone should make it a little less " dry" to read.

In brief for the readers who are not familiar with the uk planning rules:

- the process takes a long time to be processed ( 8 weeks minimum to be precise) (we are expecting an answer for our proposal first week of October!!!)

- the written planning " rules" and "guidelines" are notoriously slippery... And can be argued in any one way depending on the "interpretation" of the officer the application falls upon.

- neighbours are "consulted" for their opinion and if more then 3 claim they would be negatively affected by the proposal, the process all of a sudden takes up to 6 months and a number of other hoops need to be jumped through ( including a planning meeting etc) (for information we have more then 30 adjacent plots to our property)

- neighbours (although I cannot generalize) tend to be against anybody doing anything at all. (A acronym has been termed(not by myself): "NIMBY"... Standing for Not In My Back Yard -)

I could be expanding here but basically it took over 10 years for the 3rd runway at London Heathrow to be approved or something like that(?) and this is in the interest of the entre nation.... ( I realise this comment may be politically charged -especially if you happen to live under the new flight path)

But really I should stop here.  Please accept my apologies; I have a feeling that personal frustration and anxiety is being vented...

This is not what this blog should be about.

You may refer to the below link for more "factual" information. 

http://www.hackney.gov.uk/ep-planning-policy.htm#