Owning your own home

Does that mean a roof terrace needs planning permission that this one doesn't have?

In which case that's a strange thing to wave around so prominently in a sales listing given that it's a potential issue during the purchase.

There's something weird about the internal pictures as well, though maybe it's just the lighting and the shutters - they nearly all make it look like the house is underground.

As tbc said, it’s a roof terrace without planning permission. I was told haringey council are now very reluctant to grant planning permission for roof terraces as they cause problems with people being overlooked. But if 10 years passes without a formal objection from the council you can get it made legal retrospectively.

The fact that they describe it as having a view of ally pally but don’t actually show that in the photos makes me thing the view is pretty poor/small.

Also middle lane is quite a busy street. Pre COVID the council were planning to close it to most vehicle traffic, but this was met by lots of protest as in the trial stage traffic was diverted down other narrower residential streets. Suspect that plan has now died, but if it were to come back to life then presumably property on middle lane would become more desirable.