Regency Dormer
T
he project was to extend a small 1st floor flat into the
loft and create a new bedroom with dormer. A simple
brief complicated only by the lack of headroom in the
loft, the client’s design ambition and conservative planning
rules in this conservation area of Edinburgh.
This street has the densest concentration of listed buildings
in Portobello (54 in 120m). The planners were resistant to
the idea of a dormer in this location at all but following long
negotiations a rear dormer was conceded. We then made a
case for a low profile, long dormer, more than twice as long
as is normally permitted, because this had less visual impact
than a dormer located near the eaves.
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