Five new projects have gained planning permission and are due to start on site in 2018.

See Our work for a run down of what’s new.

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It should be finished by mid. October. We’ll post some completed shots then.

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So here’s a sketch I’ve just done the old fashioned way to illustrate a proposed new addition to a much loved Glasgow Restaurant. Prizes for guessing which Restaurant and what the addition is.

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At either ends of project scale our renovation of the Ca’d'Oro building has just completed and our extension to a lovely Arts and Crafts house in Glasgow’s South Side has just been awarded planning permission.

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The lucky buildings were the Mackintosh Church in Maryhill (by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, obviously ..) just near the Partick Thistle Ground, and the Maggie’s Centre at Gartnavel Hospital by Rem Koolhaas of OMA. Both are fantastic buildings for difference reasons.

Grainy mobile shots attached (Camera stopped working). A big thanks to the volunteers who showed us around both. They couldn’t have been nicer.

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Basically ‘permitted development’ concerns small alterations and extensions to houses which can be undertaken without the need to submit a planning application. For the first of what will hopefully be a series we’ll look at single storey extensions. To summarise, single storey extensions which are ‘permitted development’ need to:

1. Generally be located to the rear

2. Not project, from the rear wall of the existing dwellinghouse, by more than 3 metres in the case of terraced house, or 4 metres in all other cases. If the extension is further than 1 metre from each side boundary, this requirement is relaxed.

3. Have a footprint no larger than the original dwellinghouse or covering more than half the rear curtilage

The diagram above illustrates some of these requirements but remember also that there are generally no permitted development rights in conservation areas or for Listed Buildings and that a building warrant from the local authority will usually also be required.

I hope this clears things up but if you’re unsure, give us a call or send us an email and we’ll try our best to help.

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