May 2015

WEA Planning consulted on the project and helped the West London couple in question make their dreams come true by applying for several different Permitted Development (PD) permissions relating to parts of the property in advance of the overall planning application.

The house was featured in Grand Designs Magazine in October 2018, and the article can be downloaded below.  

The owners said: “In total, we had nine different planning applications of various types and having certified our PD rights we applied for full planning for the overall scheme.”

Effectively, we created a fall-back position, drawing up such a compelling set of plans that when they came together as a whole, rejection was not an option.

Permission was granted and the owners moved in nearly two years ago. “We have the home of our dreams that our family gets pleasure from every day,” they told the magazine.

If the owners had gone to their local planning department with a single application, they would undoubtedly have been refused permission – which would have been recorded on their planning history. 

A lesson in how strategy pays off. 

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