The garden had a lovely old apple trees and a very large self seeded ash by the gate which shaded the side of the house rather a lot.
By now we had started to think about plans for the house and how we wanted it to be. We felt we needed a larger porch and put in planning permission to fell the trees. Later on we got permission for an extension to the garden to the west but didn't need permission for a larger porch as it was part of the 10% permitted development.
