Room to Improve (v2)

Final granting of planning was only at the start of August last year. Tight schedule to get it all turned around so quickly.

Thanks for that, but I would lve to know how come he got away with building something different to what is on that Bannon drawing above in your post?

For example, The window of the extension in the drawing above - the only perforation in that wall, which is the front wall of the house and facing the road / closest to the road - is square and the exact same size and proportions as the other three upstairs windows.

Was was built is a tall narrow window, at least 3 times tall as it is wide, totally out of keeping with the rest of the streetscape.

Also, from the drawing, you would think there is a pitched roof on the front extension, to match all the other houses in the area. Instead all that is visible from the road is a box, like two shipping containers, one on top of the other, painted up. From the photos and from the tv programme, no pitched roof is visible on that front extension, it just looks like a flat roofed box joined on to the house like a carbuncle. Even from the most sympathetic angle the tv company could photo it from ( sideways on, and from behind a few branches ), it still looks pathetic and hideous. No wonder everyone hates it. Let us hope it does not set a precedent for other FRONT extensions in housing estates.

That's the kind of view I remember - no sloping roof visible there, it just looks like a large box tacked onto the side of the house.

Do you have a link /photo ? Because all anyone else can see is a box.

From the front elevation it looks worse than in the photo above, because you do not see the brick on the side of the extension then, or even the front door.

And should not the window have matched the planning drawings, instead of being completely different shape?

The relationship was broken, apparently...

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Then we see how pleased the couple are with Dermot and their new house.

Not everything is a Soap Opera

They did.

Planning comments are posted above and from that angle I agree with them.

I think when planting and newness wears off that is not as bad as it first looked and I have to say the laths are growing on me bigtime.

I loved the idea of the bike shed/storage at the front with the hidden door.

Very impressed with the builder.

Almost as bizarre as thinking the front wall of the extension is sloping.

The pitched roof of the extension is stepped back and a parapet gutter hides the roof from the ground.

Here you are;

Edit;

Just looked again, it seems you think it's the roof that's sloping, still bizarre!

Click on that link above, this is what the front extension should have looked like. Note the very different window shape and roof shape?

And you implied they took it to fool people. Bizarre.

I couldn't care less what 'other posters say' I make my own mind up and am not led by others.

We have been told by industry professional that 'retention' is commonly used when changes are needed in an ongoing build. If Bannon did this then he did nothing wrong.

What the hell does it matter to me or even you if he applies for retention or not? If somebody objects, let them.

Agree. If you compare the photo / drawing in post number 2929 and 2930 above, you will see that what was built is considerably uglier and different to what planning permission was granted for. The white rectangle (above the wood) is much much larger / higher.

The window is also considerably different. Why did he change that compared to what planning was granted for?

They didn't show the last 7 weeks of the build. The body language initially as they toured the house seemed very bad. That's when I first posted. When they appeared more friendly I put an update on my post.

A day later you come in and make a snarky comment as usual about the first half of my post completely ignoring my addition where I admitted it was better.

I'm not engaging with you any more. Go look for your argument fix somewhere else.

Two possible spinoff shows for the producers to consider:

1. RTI - the detail

2. RTI - Francie and Francis go at it