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My planning permission hell

15 June 2019

9:00 AM

15 June 2019

9:00 AM

When is planning permission for four loft windows actually planning permission for two? Or simultaneously vice versa? It’s a very tricky question. After spending a week in the nine circles of hell that constitute local authority planning, I have narrowed my loft conversion problems down to two possible options.

Either I’d got planning permission for four windows and it was revised down to two, or I’d got planning for two windows and it was revised up to four.

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