Declined

So, 14 business days after we submitted it and 4 businerss days (6 regular days) after they committed to respond, we finally heard from the developer with the news that they have declined our plans. They said our garage structure is too dominant and therefore not inline wiht the design guidelines. I am not entirely surprised as I think we were pushing it but, hey, you can only try. M wanted to push it up as high as possible so that we could use the roof space to constuct a loft for extra storage (of, perhaps, some home gym equipment!). The developer returned our plans with some red pen drawings showing what they thought was more acceptable. They'e pushed it right back down to single storey height. We've asked the draftsman to do it somewhere between the 2 and try our luck again.

I guess all this makes no sense without some pics, though, does it? Thus, I have uploaded some for you. Our floor plan and the externals.

This is the ground floor:
This is the first floor:

And here are the external elevations and the basic colour scheme we are looking at using. You can see we pushed up the roof height of the garage to get as much use out of the roof space as possible. That's what they didn't like. Mr Together-House really wanted it. Despite being concerned that it may be knocked back for being too dominant, I was also concerned that it looks a bit funny with all that cladding area above the garage door. Don't have to worry about it now.

Back to waiting again now. And with the developers delay in bothering to respond last time and them now having ANOTHER 10 business days to come back to us, we won't hear back on this until the New Year, I expect. Oh well, as much as impatient little me would like to know now (well, yesterday actually) we are not ready to commence building immediately anyway. Lucky!