Planning Process - Part 3

So back to the planning, after many extension requests and information going to and fro we were approaching D day.
We got a call a couple of days before the decision to tell us that the application was going to be refused. To say we were disappointed would have been an understatement, this was September over 8 months later, a month before our wedding and it really was not what we wanted to hear.

I have been critical of the Planning Authority, rightly so in some cases but in fairness to the planner we were given 3 days to see if we could submit changes that could push the application through.

I got my engineer to call the planner and after a quick discussion the only solution was to redesign the house over nite and come up with a new layout.
So we toyed with a few new ideas, the biggest issue was the the "L" of the house was too near the percolation area, and if we pushed the house forward we were too near the road.
So we had to remove the "L" and re-arrange the house layout and the house layout on the site.

After only about 1 hour and a bit of discussion we decided on a layout. We decided to sleep on it over night and I go to and started ripping through the numerous house books we had in our position. In one a design hit me in the face and we decided it looked top notch.

So we redid the cad drawings and I posted them into the planning office the next morning.

What we had now as a new layout was that the entrance and sitting room, toilet would remain, the door into the study was to go and double doors would now open into the old study, now dining room. Off the dining room would be a sun lounge with 5 windows and a door onto decking. The two side widows of the sun lounge were going to be triangular at the top to add a bit of character.

The kitchen now remained the kitchen but was now almost the same size as the old kitchen and dining room together! (Something we would find out to be an expensive change!)
The utility remained but now had a door out the back.

So we waited....