A quick rant about my local council here in gwent region of Wales
My wife and i have applied for planning permission to build our dream house..in our eyes if fits perfectly within the plot and the design is in-keeping with the other 3 houses that are close by..we have already been approved for outline planning (the posistion and size of the footprint) but the planning agency rejected our full planning application on "concerns about the scale"
So the we were summoned to a meeting today with 2 members of the board and thay have asked us to scale down the proportions of the house..bare in mind there have been no complaints ,the house is set back from the roads ..basically once its built only 3 neighbours would know it was there (one of which are my parents in law who gave us the land in the first place)
So what action did they ask of us? ..lower the roof by a foot and dont build a room above the garage again to keep the roof line low.
the house has actually been designed to have the ustairs within the roof space so is already considerably lower than a conventionl house (which ironically was approved in the outline permission)
when i brought this to their attention they just dodged the question saying "this was the requirement of the planning board" and we either comply or we get turned down.
I cant help thinking these people are here just to justify a job ..i left the meeting feeling angry and fustrated as there was no genuine reason to make any changes at all ..Now i gotta wait another month and pay more architect fees now to make the ammendments...GRRRRR
My wife and i have applied for planning permission to build our dream house..in our eyes if fits perfectly within the plot and the design is in-keeping with the other 3 houses that are close by..we have already been approved for outline planning (the posistion and size of the footprint) but the planning agency rejected our full planning application on "concerns about the scale"
So the we were summoned to a meeting today with 2 members of the board and thay have asked us to scale down the proportions of the house..bare in mind there have been no complaints ,the house is set back from the roads ..basically once its built only 3 neighbours would know it was there (one of which are my parents in law who gave us the land in the first place)
So what action did they ask of us? ..lower the roof by a foot and dont build a room above the garage again to keep the roof line low.
the house has actually been designed to have the ustairs within the roof space so is already considerably lower than a conventionl house (which ironically was approved in the outline permission)
when i brought this to their attention they just dodged the question saying "this was the requirement of the planning board" and we either comply or we get turned down.
I cant help thinking these people are here just to justify a job ..i left the meeting feeling angry and fustrated as there was no genuine reason to make any changes at all ..Now i gotta wait another month and pay more architect fees now to make the ammendments...GRRRRR
