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I realised it was an opportunity to reassess my bucket list, alongside my goals and what’s important to me - something we should all do on a regular basis in my opinion.
While I have big ideas around travel, volunteering and physical challenges, more than anything I’d love to have more time to learn new skills I can use around the home and practise with my daughter. I’ve learnt I really enjoy using my hands to make things, like these little concrete pots I was able to make when I took some time off work last year. But I’d also love to learn how to arrange flowers, knit and macrame among other things. There are so many wonderful workshops around these days, I’d do one a day if I could!
I’m also really conscious my daughter is growing up and the time I’ll have her to myself is so limited. I have friends with eight year olds who won't hold their parents hands walking down the street anymore. That’s only a couple of years away for me and the thought breaks my heart! So £10K a month now would free up my time to learn new things but also to concentrate on Molly and making our time together extra special. We could make and do all sorts of things, go places and just hang out. Wouldn’t that be dreamy!
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To carry out the side return extension to the rear of the house, although it falls within permitted development (just), we still need to obtain pre-planning approval. This involves submitting architect’s drawings to the council, waiting for the council’s planning department to consult the neighbours and playing the waiting game.
The process can take up to eight weeks, in some cases more if there’s a backlog of applications or objections from the neighbours.
We’re hoping to have an answer mid-late March. As soon as we do it will be full-steam ahead on the building work as we’ll be on countdown – the lease on our rental flat is up on 6th June.
In a nutshell, once planning is approved (if it’s approved), we will have just over two months to renovate an entire house and make it livable for a 2 year old. Eeek!
Here are the plans we submitted as part of our application. They were created by Brighton architectural firm BPM. The practice is headed up by James Boys who has given us some really useful advice and has a clear and straightforward approach. It’s great when the complication is taken out of things! Fingers crossed for approval…
The infill extension (side return)
First floor remodel and loft conversion
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