Planning precedent report

Permission for construction of a single storey extension to the side and front of Rookstown Lodge to provide for a dining area, an enlarged kitchen and family area & study area and the construction of a two storey extension to the rear of the property to provide for a disabled accessible bedroom suite on the ground floor and an additional family bedroom on the first floor. Works will include replacing the pitched roof of the single storey living room to the rear with a flat roof and the relocation of the external wall of the living room.

The development will consist of extending the existing single-storey garage at the side of the house forward on the site converting the combined garage and extension to habitable space with a new window to the front fitting 3 No. Velux roof windows to the side roof building a new parapet wall and stone cladding to match the existing house. The works also involve moving the entrance door to the house and all associated internal site and drainage works.

Permission to construct a new single-storey front porch in place of an existing porch. Retention Permission is sought for the construction of a new window opening on the first-floor rear elevation; and landscaping works to form a terrace which altered the ground floor level by more than 1m below the level of the adjoining ground level as a consequence of building a new extension under exempted development (extension currently under construction); and all associated site works.

New single storey family room extension to rear

Permission for retention

Retention permission for existing Garage conversion and renovation to games room, additional height to existing shed walls with the addition of new flat roof to facilitate replacement of existing dilapidated roof and garage conversion with ancillary works.