Planning Problem

We have just been informed by the Maries Office that our planning application for permission to carry out the alterations to our maison secondaire has been incorrectly filed. We need to submit a permis de construire so guess that the grenier is not classed as an existing habitable space even though its boarded out, has windows and is accessible.


So back to square one and now we have to wait up to eight weeks for the permission to come through before we can make a start on the building work. Hopefully however, we can still start putting the drainage in and dig out the bay tree to the front of the property and re-build the wall that it is pushing over.

Despite the set back we are still hoping to get the work done this year and think we are about to learn that things in France don't happen as fast as they do in the UK. We can live with that, after all the slower pace is one of the reasons why we love France.