Owning your own home

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NickCJ in reply to @Glws

I am almost 100% sure it needs planning.

The question is whether it’s a useful halfway house and, if so, why you don’t see it done more often.

For context, initial quotes from D&B companies to do a fairly basic spec side return are north of £150k at current materials and labour prices.

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Howard in reply to @NickCJ

why you don’t see it done more often.

Probably because you aren't really allowed to do it - unless it complies with the regs around conservatories, i.e. run on a separate heating system, have doors separating them from the other areas of the house etc.

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NickCJ in reply to @Howard

I’m pretty sure the existing structure isn’t non-complying (we checked planning and building regs when we moved in c. 2 yrs ago). It is formally an extension (orangery?) not a conservatory for the reasons you describe.

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