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3. Go hip to gable
Where the roof of a property is hipped, e.g sloping on all four sides (three on a semi detached house), there may not be sufficient roof volume with full headroom to make a conversion viable. However, the roof can be altered from a hip to gable on one or both sides, forming a gable pitched roof with headroom along the full length of the roof.
A hip to gable conversion may not require planning permission providing the design complies with the criteria for Permitted Development (PD). This allows an increase of 50m to the house (40m on a terraced house), providing no part of the roof is higher than the original.
It is always worth checking with the local authority as to whether or not planning permission is required. It may be possible to undertake work using PD rights that would not comply with local planning policy were permission required.
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