Property Advice: How big or high can we extend?

As potential homeowners of a mid-terraced house, you have a right to improve and extend your property within the legal framework of the planning regulations.

Most domestic extensions fall under two categories: Exempted development and developments that require planning permission. 

Hi Brigid, 

We have just gone ‘sale agreed’ on an 800 sq ft, mid-terraced, 1950s city home and we love the setting and the west-facing aspect at the back.