Keen to avoid any hassle when it came to obtaining planning permission, Kevin worked closely with his architect to develop a scheme that would be received favourably by the planners. The new house features a white render finish like the original property, but the initial CGI mockups showed the larger size of the new design meant it stood out more against the steep bank and foliage behind it. “For that reason, we decided to tone it down by incorporating dark grey timber boarding on the upper level,” says Kevin. A slate roof was also required to meet the planning department’s criteria. “In an ideal world, I’d have fitted solar panels,” says Kevin. “However, they’d have needed to go on the front of the house, which we’d never have gotten away with in an AONB.”
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