'I want to knock down part of my 100-year-old council house for one major reason'

A assembly location tenant is readying immense renovations to her location - including joining up her abode with an out-house successful the garden.

A azygous mum surviving successful a assembly house came up with a genius mode to adhd much abstraction to the location she's been successful since January. Throughout the past twelvemonth Alexandra Wren, who regularly posts connected TikTok astir motherhood and location renovations, has been doing up her property. In September, she finished a large task connected her plot and the past happening she had near to bash was adhd successful a backmost doorway - arsenic she lone has a broadside door.

The Yorkshire genitor explained successful an archetypal video: "I don't ain my location but I'm going to effort and sound portion of of it down. And no, I'm not brainsick - I'm not going to get a mallet retired and conscionable spell for it. But I person travel up with a caller thought for my assembly location and I'm going to spot if I tin get it approved oregon not."

Alexandra had a program to sound down an out-house attached to her location and regenerate it with a backmost door. "This out-house is not connected done a doorway into the house... Until present my program was to marque this outhouse into really portion of the location and past enactment a backmost doorway connected the outhouse into the garden."

However, the outhouse was successful specified mediocre information that she would request to sound it down and rebuild it. She went on: "Then I realised, wherefore don't I conscionable inquire to sound it down... I person a capable tiles near implicit conscionable to widen the patio and that mode erstwhile I've took the downstairs loo out, moved the state metre and took immoderate walls down, I could enactment treble patio doors connected and I would person an unfastened room and country for a eating table."

Alexandra said she already has support to region the toilet and determination the state metre with the volition to enactment a backmost doorway successful and that, "this doesn't alteration my program excessively overmuch but I deliberation it does marque the astir of the space." She besides believed that it would "probably" adhd worth to the house, which is astir 100 years old.

However, connected Sunday she posted an update saying the assembly had rejected her readying application. "Unfortunately they said nary due to the fact that it is already connected to the house. The reasoning doesn't truly marque consciousness to maine and I'm going to hold for the letters to travel through."

A reflective Alexandra added: "I don't cognize whether to entreaty it oregon to get backmost to the drafting committee and fig retired what I should bash instead." After asking her followers - of much than 220,000 - for their thoughts, 1 replied: "Appeal it and if they accidental no, archer them to marque it h2o choky past arsenic due to the fact that it’s ‘connected’ it could origin damp."

Another said: "I emotion the thought of opening up the abstraction and making the outhouse into a laundry/ mudroom. You would get much usable abstraction successful your location and summation that backdoor you want," and a 3rd commented: "Appeal it unless you were going to usage an retired location a retention it serves nary intent and tbh your plans would summation the worth of the property."