22/1062/FFU: REFUSED Two-Story Rear Extension

Church Road, Windlesham | Surrey Heath Borough Council

Planning refusal for the erection of a two-story rear extension, existing front flat-roofed dormers replaced with pitched roofs.

Read full planning application here.

Another daft and unreasonable planning decision. Looking along the road, this is a proposal to extend the rear of the chalet-bungalow with the flat dormers illustrated below. As we can see there are substantial two-storey houses on each side, this application does not alter the scale of the front elevation, they have just added pitched roofs to the dormers.

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The existing and proposed site plans below show a long double-storey extension to the rear of the property but looking at the houses on each side and the sizes of the gardens, the reasons for refusal refer to over-bearing on Meadow house to the north, which appears to have been through a similar extension process previously. This proposal will have a negligible effect on the neighbours. Accepting that the proposed additions are unimaginative and dull, they can’t be seen from anywhere, there are a lot more contentious schemes out there that are granted approval. Looks like the applicants need to reduce the scale of the part of the building near Meadow View and a revised application with a better design will be successful.