Seems best to email them:
Responses can also be submitted via email to the Planning Policy Team or by post to: Planning and Growth, Southwark Council, PO BOX 645529 London SE1P 5LX. (
[email protected])
I have plans to do a loft conversion and this would really impact why I'd bought the property in the first place and if gone these guidelines go ahead, will seriously consider moving out elsewhere as the place I bought would no longer serve my future needs, such as having a family/kids. Even the extra room(s) would allow to take in a lodger if times got tougher.
Not to mention, these restrictions would make a terrace conversion in to 2 decent sized flats almost impossible and exacerbate the housing crisis further. Adding usable rooms to existing housing makes sense under current guidelines for permitted development. As an earlier poster said, the 1m restrictions and the added requirements for additional the steel beams will make any rooms too small to be decent and costs too high for the slight additional space, which might barely fit a double bed and wardrobe.
It might even encourage illegal loft conversions to a 'room' and lower the overall quality of housing in the borough.
Seems best to email them: Responses can also be submitted via email to the Planning Policy Team or by post to: Planning and Growth, Southwark Council, PO BOX 645529 London SE1P 5LX. ([email protected]) I have plans to do a loft conversion and this would really impact why I'd bought the property in the first place and if gone these guidelines go ahead, will seriously consider moving out elsewhere as the place I bought would no longer serve my future needs, such as having a family/kids. Even the extra room(s) would allow to take in a lodger if times got tougher. Not to mention, these restrictions would make a terrace conversion in to 2 decent sized flats almost impossible and exacerbate the housing crisis further. Adding usable rooms to existing housing makes sense under current guidelines for permitted development. As an earlier poster said, the 1m restrictions and the added requirements for additional the steel beams will make any rooms too small to be decent and costs too high for the slight additional space, which might barely fit a double bed and wardrobe. It might even encourage illegal loft conversions to a 'room' and lower the overall quality of housing in the borough.