Planning permission is not normally needed for a loft conversion as they are covered by permitted development rights. A conversion company will tell you if you do and help you with this. For more information, see our article about planning permission.
Berriedale
Berriedale is a small estate town on the northern east coast of Caithness, Scotland, on the A9 road in between Helmsdale and also Lybster, close to the border between Caithness as well as Sutherland. It is protected from the North Sea. The town has a parish church in the Church of Scotland. Simply southern of Berriedale, en route to the north, the A9 passes the Berriedale Braes, a steep decrease in the landscape (brae is a Scots word for hill, a borrowing of the Scottish Gaelic bràighe). The roadway drops down considerably (13% over 1,3 km) to connect a river, before increasing once again (13% over 1,3 km), with a number of sharp bends in the road-- although a few of the barrette flexes and various other close-by gradients have actually been alleviated in the last few years. The impracticality (and also price) of connecting the Berriedale Braes stopped the building of the Inverness-Wick Far North Line along the eastern shore of Caithness; instead the railway runs inland through the Flow Country. Berriedale is located at the end of the 8th phase of the coastal John o' Groats Route.
