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Old 21 Jan 20, 02:32 PM  
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Having been through a huge extension and renovation project, I would recommend not living there whilst it's being done, for your own sanity. We said next time we would buy / hire a caravan and put it on the driveway, as that would have been better!

In terms of planning, it sounds like it will need it but you shouldn't find it too difficult to get. Ours was knocked back once as they wanted us to reduce the depth of the extension by 1m but on re-submission went through fine. We extended out the side and a bit out the front.

We extended in 2016 and sold the house in 2019 and moved but it was still worth it as we made a lot of money and we wouldn't have been able to afford the house we have now otherwise.

ETA we didn't get out a home improvement loan, we extended the mortgage as the rate was much cheaper, so something to look into
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