Essex Extensions
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Well designed house extensions will increase the value of your home. At Essex Builders, we believe extensions should provide seamless additional living space that blends into the original character of your home.
Essex Builders qualified craftsmen have all the necessary expertise and skills to undertake your project from start to finish. Coordination of the whole project together with any other required services and advice, ie, planning permissions and building regulations is standard to our service.
From the initial meeting, your specific requirements and project feasibility are determined. Then, on request, recommended architects who have proven success with building quality and planning permission approval, draw up plans and drawings for planning permission submission.
On approval, you are assured that all conversion work is undertaken by qualified and highly skilled builders, bathroom fitters, electricians, plasterers, dry liners, plumbers and carpenters. All work is quickly and efficiently completed together with prioritorised instructions to operate with minimum disturbance and inconvenience.
Essex Builders provide assistance with planning permission and building regulation requirements. Please see overview of Planning Permission guidance as per September 2008.
Planning Permission (as per September 2008):
Planning permission is not required provided that the proposed extension complies with Rules A – F below.
Rule A
The size of the extension must not be more than the following:
Terrace house – 50 cubic metres or 10% of the original house volume, whichever is the greater.
Houses within a Conservation Area - 50 cubic metres or 10% of the original house volume, whichever is the greater.
All house (detached or semi-detached) - 70 cubic metres or 15% of the original house volume, whichever is the greater.
Note 1
In all cases size is calculated from external measurement, and there is an upper limit of 115 cubic metres.
Note 2
Any extension built since 1 October 1973 will not be treated as part of the original house volume. It will therefore be necessary to subtract the volume of any existing extension from the allowances specified above. The amount left over (if any) is the amount which you can extend without planning permission providing the proposed addition also complies with Rules B to F (see Illustration 1).