Misrepresentation and damages

[lonelyduck]

I recently bought a two-bedroom house, which comes with one and a half acre of land in a small town (for over a million!!).
The property is not listed on the building conservation area our agents told my husband that we could make as many adjustments and extensions as we wished as we had a planning permission.
Therefore, we planned to double the size of the property taking advantage of the land coming with it, we thought: easy, wright??
However, they told us that: we could make changes just on the ground level (wtf?!?!), that we were ruining the "environnement" (O-o), neighbours complaint that they could not watch their stupid trees, I'm speechless, no, I'm furious!
We were foolled and lied to by these people and I don't want them to get away with this. If I can't make it bigger I don't see the use of this small house with garden anymore!!!
I want to ask if we can ask damages because they lied about the permission!

[Amethyst]

Who told you ? Have you applied for planning permission and been refused ? Or did you buy the property believing it to already have planning in place ? Or did you believe the work you wanted to undertake would fall under permitted development?

Did you have a full survey / conveyance before purchase ?

[Ripped-Off]

I can't understand how someone who can afford £1m for a property resorts to legal advice and opinion from a web site like this. It's like buying a Ferrari and having it repaired by an amateur mechanic!

Do yourself a favour...if you can afford a £1m property, you can afford a solicitor!