Owning your own home

Layout 1:

layout 2:

One's back to front but you get the gist...

It has a proper soil pipe (although there is a small boxing in under the eaves where it goes, the space would be useless for anything else).

Does it go round to a stack at the back, or does it connect at the front? With layout 1 the pipe would have to go right from front eaves to back of the house.

We saw a few examples and the smaller rooms didn't seem worth the money and without plenty of windows they look a bit dark, velux don't seem to provide as much light as full size windows I thought.

Yeah that's what I'm worried about. I'm stalking old loft conversion planning submissions on the Haringey Council website, going to knock on a few neighbours' doors and say "scuse me, can I look in your loft?".

Nothing dodgy ever happens in lofts in Tottenham, I can't see any way this will end badly.