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@Howard wow - thanks so much! Hadn't noticed next door's extension. That is bastardish. Suppose can't do anything retrospectively? At my dad's house, he once got home to the next door neighbour having put 2-3ft on the garden wall in an unmatching non-Victorian brick.
Parking is a bastard everywhere around here. I ride to work, should ride to the supermarket so my car only really moves for trips. So it would be a fortnightly battle only.
Conservation area I think quite likely. Would be big enough I think without extending it for a guest bedroom.
Second list also really helpful :)
bobble
Immediate thoughts
next door have some kind of extension that runs along the west boundary. It looks like the flu from their boiler is exiting across the boundary in to 'your' garden. It's also quite tall, and doesn't look like the kind of thing planning would agree to. It could be a clue to the neighbours being bastards. It's almost certainly blighting 'your' garden.
parking. Gonna be a bastard. you might not care, others might
potential loft conversion. Looks like others on that street have made the loft a livable space, but only one has extended the back with a flat roof. This might be a clue that you can't for some boring reason (conservation area?)
Tree in the garden looks too big. It will need to go. You might be able to get it out the back but more likely it will have to be taken through the house when it does come down. Which is a bastard.
Looking at it, as above, total renovation. Assume nothing works, and it needs to come back to the brick and floor joists before it can be improved. There's something going on with damp and water, plenty of evidence of it in the photos, could be some fucked drains or the roof could be leaking, you'd need to find out. Plenty of big things to asses and sort;
But it's a nice size for that kind of thing if you fancy it.
(I actually think the 'done up' one is almost equally problematic - it's had a lick of paint and there's some plasterboard and a window in the loft but god knows if it's been done right. The utility room is a lean too with a plastic roof and god knows what's in the garden).