Calcot, Reading RG31
Loft conversion with a bedroom, bathroom and eaves storage, drawn for a certificate of lawful proposed development, alongside a separate prior approval scheme for a larger rear extension.
5 Bancroft Place in Calcot is a detached house within West Berkshire. The owners wanted to add a bedroom in the loft and also explore a larger rear extension, so the project combined two consent routes.
The proposed loft floor plan shows a bedroom, a bathroom, a hallway with the new stair and eaves storage. The proposed elevations show the roof alterations, with red lines marking the new work. The drawings were prepared for a certificate of lawful proposed development, which confirms in writing that the loft is permitted development.
A separate set of drawings was prepared for prior approval of a larger single storey rear extension. Prior approval allows rear extensions of up to 8 metres on detached houses, subject to the council considering the effect on neighbours.
Using a certificate for the loft and prior approval for the extension avoided a full planning application while giving the owners formal confirmation for both. We prepared existing and proposed elevations, floor plans, loft plans, roof plans and block plans for each route, a location plan and the CIL form.
A certificate of lawful development is not compulsory for permitted development, but it is often worth having, because mortgage lenders and buyers' solicitors ask for proof that the work was lawful.
The loft bedroom takes the highest part of the roof, with the bathroom alongside and eaves storage at the sides. The stair continues from the first floor landing, keeping the existing bedrooms intact.
Calcot is in West Berkshire, where the Local Plan Review 2023 to 2041 applies. Certificates and prior approvals follow national rules, so the local plan matters less, but we still check for conditions and Article 4 directions.
Our loft conversions page shows more examples, and our certificates and prior approval pages explain each route in more detail.
Certificates and prior approvals usually take around six to eight weeks.
The proposed elevations show the loft alterations from the front, rear and both sides, with red lines marking the new work, so the council can confirm that nothing projects beyond the front roof slope.
The proposed roof plan shows the extent of the roof alterations from above, together with the existing rooflight positions.
Calcot is on the Reading side of West Berkshire, close to Tilehurst.
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