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Howard
Planning for windows' does my nut in. Currently doing one,though its like for like. Ish. Already a UPVC window job, every one in the building and the street have different. Only original sash left is the rotten ones in folks downstairs toilets where it just wasn't worth the bother to replace. Council insists we should all copy this rotting EPC fail nightmare window.
Latest faux wood foils, and getting a multi unit window (so faux sliding sash, or actual sliding sash, but with 6 individual glazed units in it, rather than 1 big one, with faux Georgian bars inside the units) look absolutely fine, unbelievably close to original. Its only when you go to physically open the window, and your face is against it, you go 'oh, its plastic, not wood!?'.. And yup, council suggests even this is not allowed. Even though the 1989 brown saggy plastic monstrosity with a single 2m high glass unit with not even faux Georgian bars inside, is currently OK because it was fitted ages back.
Standard argument that everyone has when living in a conservation area. Should have just just done what every building developer company does, and demolish /smash/destroy over the weekend, so that no one in a position to stop them, can. And then the damage it done, so its all OK.