Detailed blog of loft conversion ideas advantages for your South London property, it’s great way to revitalise your home, adding value increasing your space with loft conversions.
Advantages of a Loft Conversion for your South London Property
You will no doubt have seen countless Loft Conversions South London out and about within your local and wider neighbourhood. In fact, they are so common these days that we challenge anyone to find us a residential street in a London postcode that hasn’t had some form of loft conversion. Since there are permitted development rights available for loft conversions, they are easily one of the most common project types that we handle.
Light – Increase the incoming light into your property
Forgive us for stating the obvious but the roof of your house is hit with the most sunlight in comparison to any other part of your property. A loft conversion can look to take advantage of this by adding in features such as roof windows that will take advantage of this natural resource and put it to great use. Natural light has many benefits such as improving overall mental and physical health as well as improving sleep quality. Depending on the use of the room it will also be an advantage in reducing eye strain and potential headaches which can be an effect of poor light or overuse of artificial lighting. We have plenty of loft conversion ideas that will look to maximise the use of natural light coming into your loft conversion and into other areas of the house using clever design features to direct it towards more needed areas.
There are plenty of companies that offer a wide range of roof windows both for pitched and flat roofs, with a variety of different visual finishes that mean that roof windows can easily become a functional and aesthetic feature of your loft conversion.
Easier – Easier than moving home
Moving home is without a doubt far more complicated than having a loft conversion done to your property. The endless list of considerations such as solicitors’ fees, surveying fees, moving logistics, change in commute and potentially changing your children’s school is enough to put the idea in the bin, and that’s all before the hardest part, actually finding the new home that you want.
A loft conversion simply does away with all that hassle, an architectural practise such as GBS Architectural will look to ensure that the process of measuring your home, designing, gaining approvals, selecting a contractor, and even overseeing the work is as stress-free as possible. Once all is said and done, you’ll be laughing at the idea you even want to leave the home you clearly loved.
As residential architectural designers we always want to make sure that we are improving the local housing stock and that is another reason why we would encourage potential clients to seek to improve their home rather than move.
Approval – Planning Permission is not always required
We alluded earlier to the introduction of permitted development rights being one of the main contributing factors to the popularity of loft conversions. Due to the simple tick box nature of permitted development rights it is regularly possible to circumnavigate the need for a formal planning approval process providing that the guidance is followed.
The immediate concern here is whether you have access to the rights or not, we can carry out the checks needed to confirm this on your behalf. If they are available and providing there is no reason not to, we would always advise that we look to utilise the rights to guarantee a smooth design and planning stage of your loft conversion project.
If the project doesn’t lend itself to using the rights or if they are simply not available to you, we could then look at the feasibility of a formal planning application, if the local planning guidance doesn’t oppose loft conversions there is nothing to suggest that this would be a problem. Regardless of the approval method we have experience in handling these matters and can offer plenty loft conversion ideas to you to ensure a smooth approval route.
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