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GB wrote:
On 20/09/2017 16:13, Nige Danton wrote:
I have a decent sized basement and I want to use part of it as a cinema
room. I'd welcome comments and feedback.

Our next door neighbour successfully put in a planning application to
dig a basement under his house with a cinema, plus parking (with a
lift), and of course a maid's room. Have you left space in your design
for a maid's room?

The neighbour's house has been on the market for 18 months, now,
overpriced on the basis of this planning permission. Apparently, the
demand for maid's rooms is less than he thought.

our former next door neighbour "successfully" turned a 3/4 bedroom, 1
bathroom house intoa 5 bedroom all with en suite facilities. Within a week
of the builders leaving it was on the market (for £2M)* - where it sat for
16 months! As he left he said "you're going to have terrible neighbours,
I've never dealt with anyone like them"
Actually they are the nicest neighbours we've had in our 40 years of living
in this house.

* estate agent contact said "Word on the street is tht he lost his job"

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from KT24 in Surrey, England