We are still in the middle of trying to get some plans resubmitted on some changes we want to make to redesign upstairs and increase our space significantly by putting in two new dormas and knock through walls etc to give us three double bedrooms plus a large ensuite with double shower and seperate bath.

We already have two further bedrooms and two bathrooms down stairs but doing this will mean our house will finally be our vision of what we knew could be done and thus increasing the value significantly so realising the investment potential.

Anyway two years later and a catalogue of errors and just unnecessary hurdles because of idiots and a stroppy next door neighbour we are trying for resubmission. We at trying to get a site plan sorted as the last one our architect submitted and that was published on the last attempt of submission was for a road somewhere in a town not even any where near us !!

So I asked a question today to the planners if we submitted our original plans that were rejected would the spplication be viewed differently and more likely to get passed ?

The answer ( and take into consideration this is the planning Office of the one and only David Cameron ! ) I am sorry but the law may have changed today but nobody knows what the changes are , and how it will affect future applications

It is a worry isn't it !!

I think we may have a few more months before we get this application re submitted !!

Planning matters can be a total nightmare! Trouble is often there seems to be little consistancy.

I have some plans going in at the moment, have fingers and toes crossed. I suspect the planning changes may have little effect with regard to extensions etc, because I read that if local authorities have a Local Plan in place, this will still apply.

I live in a National Park so I don't think the changes will have any effect here as our planners are very strict.

Good luck when you do re-submit it. Have you tried going for Pre Application advice? Also should you fail to get PP you could appeal to the Secretary Of State.

I know all the ins and outs of planning having gone through so many problems !!

I am sure it will happen you just have to have patience. I nearly lost when once when this twerp was trying to compare a planners decision based on if you like bananas and he kept on asking if I liked bananas and refused to say as the question. Had asked was totally poles away from what the twonk was talking about ! It went on for ten minutes until I told him to shut up politely and perhaps think about how he could help in a constructive way :-D

And we poor taxpayers pay their salaries!!!!

I have to admit to asking one of the planners in my local council "was it true that this was the best planning department that money could buy".......there was a stunned silence at the other end of the line, and the guy who'd answered said (after almost choking!!) "I'll pretend that I didn't hear that question"...........

Well  ....they were piddling around, demanding this, demanding that, stating that they would prefer that the property was not altered in any way - "so you'd prefer it to remain in a falling-down state?"......... ;)

In the end (after wasting 6 months of our time) it turned out that all we needed was building regs in any case!

No wonder different councils do different things if they dont know what the hell is going on!!!!!
I have seen things around here that will make your blood boil whithin planning :( :( :(
Wait a few months then make tentative enquires again :) :)
Good luck :) :)
Lea :)