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.
Tetbury
Tetbury is a small town and civil parish within the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England. It pushes the site of an old hill ft, on which an Anglo-Saxon abbey was founded, most likely by Ine of Wessex, in 681. The population of the parish was 5,250 in the 2001 census, enhancing to 5,472 at the 2011 census. During the Middle Ages, Tetbury became an important market for Cotswold wool and yarn. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, started 1972, is a yearly competition where participants have to carry a 60-pound (27 kg) sack of woollen backwards and forwards a high hillside (Gumstool Hill). The Tetbury Woolsack Races occur on the "late May Bank Holiday", the last Monday in May each year. Notable structures in the town include the Church House, Market House, integrated in 1655 and also the late-eighteenth century Gothic revival parish church of St Mary the Virgin as well as St Mary Magdalene as well as much of the rest of the community centre, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Market House is a great example of a Cotswold pillared market home as well as is still in operation as a meeting place and market. Other attractions include the Police Bygones Museum. Chavenage House, Highgrove House and also Westonbirt Arboretum lie simply outside the community. Tetbury has actually won five consecutive Gold awards in the Regional "Heart of England in Bloom" competition in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 as well as 2010 and also was category winner "Best Small Town" in 2008, 2009 and also 2010. In 2010 Tetbury was Overall Winner of Heart of England in Bloom as well as won a Judges Discretionary Award for Neighborhood Achievement. Tetbury won Silver Gilt as a first-time entrant in the National Britain in Blossom Campaign in 2009 as well as a second Silver Gilt in Britain in Bloom in 2011. The Tetbury town crest features 2 dolphins.
