one would wor on so many levels he orsyths oered the ull asing price o ,, and contracts were echanged in pril  o give the previous owner more time to find another place to live, they post poned moving in until eruary the ollowing year, y which time they had already drawn up plenty o ideas or their new home hey had also approached est Yorshire ased architect ames utterworth, o tudio  rchitects, to transorm their wishlist into a worale, and inspirational, design


DESIGN ASPIRATIONS & PLANNING CHALLENGES


High on their list was more light in the property, a etter lin etween the house and garden, more ensuite edrooms, and an improved room layout


 ey part o the design was to replan the eisting cramped and dated layout to one that wored or modern amily living, with generously sied, light and airy rooms that connected to the garden, says ames lthough oten seen as a secondary space, the new repositioned hall and stairs were paramount in maing the proect wor His interpretation got the thums up rom o and arrie


ames came up with a design which we really lied and included an etension running the ull width o the house at the ac and an eten sion upstairs to create more edrooms, says o he previous owner had gained planning permission or an etension which had epired, so she gave us the drawings and ames too it rom there


ut as soon as their design was sumitted to eeds ity ouncil planning department, they hit a wall


he house is in a green elt area and the 44 www.sbhonline.co.uk


“We had budgeted around £200,000 but we had an inkling that it was going to be a lot more than we bargained for” – Carrie


garden ence is right on the order etween eeds ity ouncil and radord ouncil, says o t was incredily rustrating ecause radord is very open to development in green elt areas while eeds were much less eile e went acwards and orwards at least three times, maing adustments to the design, reduc ing the space, restricting the roo height and doing our est to wor within their constraints hey were inormed that the previous two etensions had already used up most o their uota or permitted development, and that any urther etension would e granted in light o the permission that had epired e considered ringing in a solicitor to fight our corner, ut the architect advised against it and, in hindsight, it was right not to launch into a legal attle, even though it was incredily rustrating, says arrie o even appealed the councils decision, ut to no avail e ecame so disheartened that, at one point, we actually considered nocing the house down


mar/apr 2022


HIGH POINT


liming a ladder to get up to the newly created edroom at the ac o the house and seeing the view or the first time e could see eeds city centre in one direction, and open countryside in the other


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