💡 Don't move, Improve (AL it)
Find out what your extension is really worth
From a 9m² Kitchen to a 47m² Family Hub:
a Wraparound Extension in Sale
Planning permission granted by Trafford Council first time.
Wraparound Extension in Sale, Great Manchester
Project facts bar
- Location: Sale, Trafford, Greater Manchester
- Project type: Single rear, side and wraparound extensions · garage conversion
- Services provided: Feasibility, full planning drawings (Revit/BIM), planning application as agent, 3D visualisation, building regulation drawings & structural coordination
- Council & outcome: Trafford Council, planning permission granted
- The transformation: Kitchen 9.27m² → open-plan kitchen/living/dining 47.56m² · garage → home office + utility ·
- Timeline: Survey January 2026 → submission February 2026 → approval June 2026
- Estimated value added: +£196.650
The story
The situation
A doctor's family home on a quiet close in Sale. Great street, good schools nearby, but a kitchen of just 9 square metres doing the work of a family's whole daily life.
Cooking, homework, guests: everything squeezed through one small room while the garage stored boxes.
Moving to a bigger house in the same area would have meant six figures in extra mortgage, stamp duty and fees, for a street they already loved.
So the brief to AL-Haitham Ltd was the one we hear most:
don't move, improve.
The challenge
Wraparound extensions: where a rear extension and a side extension join into one L-shaped space are the fastest way to transform a house, and the easiest way to get refused.
Trafford Council looks closely at how they affect the neighbours: daylight, overlooking, and how much of the plot gets built over.
Windows facing the boundary had to be obscure-glazed and non-opening below 1.7m.
A planning condition we designed in from day one rather than fixed later.
The solution & result
We wrapped the new structure around the rear and side in one clean move, opening the back of the house into a 47.56m² kitchen, living and dining space lit by rooflights, five times the size of the old kitchen.
The garage became a proper home office and utility room, because a doctor's paperwork deserves better than a kitchen table.
Upstairs, the first floor has a new storage arae, keeping the top-floor master suite with its walk-in wardrobe and en-suite.
Trafford Council granted permission, and what the family approved on screen in 3D is exactly what will be built.
The evidence
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