Pre 1949 was after the second world war the local councils started collecting plans, and maintaining a database of the properties in their borough so they could find out at anytime what extensions were done when, what designs they were allowing to be done, and even though at the time weren’t very strict had the control to say what and wasn’t aloud to be built.

Anything before “Pre” 1949 that even though may look like an add on extension, can’t actually be proven by the council that it was so they decided to allow all extensions built before 1949 to be part of the existing house.
This means all of those houses will still have their full permitted development rights as well as their “existing extension” A very good situation to be in when wanting to extend your house because you can also make deals with the councils with what you want to achieve, and make it look like because the house will be well over extended which equates to angry neighbors that the council wont want to deal with. So It just gives you that little bit on the council which helps alot when gaining planning permission…

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