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Submit planswe are looking to purchase a semi-detached 2 bedroom house, its advertised as a Victorian cottage built in 1880, there is a rear extension built on but this covers only half the width of the rear of the house and has a small kitchen and bathroom in it with a low roof and it about 4.5 metres long. This was built over 20 years ago and it appears some effort has been made to source similar looking bricks. I am trying to work out if under permitted development we could extend the existing extension width ways so the whole extension is the width of the house. with this type of property does an extension of the extension sound possible under PD? if not does it sound like the type of property that would gain planning permission? the neighboring houses have larger extensions out the back. **
Because this property has been extended to the rear across half the width of the house, infilling the remainder would represent both a rear extension and a side extension. The side extension element would be off the existing extension, and you cannot, under permitted development rules, extend off an extension, only off the original dwelling. So, you will need planning permission. Whether this might prove contentious would very much depend on the impact of the extension on your adjoining neighbour. If it can be done in a way that doesn’t affect their light, outlook or privacy, it should be OK.