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Regency Dormer<br />
The project was to extend a small 1st floor flat into the<br />
loft and create a new bedroom with dormer. A simple<br />
brief complicated only by the lack of headroom in the<br />
loft, the client’s design ambition and conservative planning<br />
rules in this conservation area of Edinburgh.<br />
This street has the densest concentration of listed buildings<br />
in Portobello (54 in 120m). The planners were resistant to<br />
the idea of a dormer in this location at all but following long<br />
negotiations a rear dormer was conceded. We then made a<br />
case for a low profile, long dormer, more than twice as long<br />
as is normally permitted, because this had less visual impact<br />
than a dormer located near the eaves.<br />
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