Big Problem !

Our building application has been denied by the Preservation Department (Fylkeskommunen). Although the area and our house is regulated as a cultural landscape area, which means that everything must remain in the proper style, the Preservation Department has decided that our individual house cannot have any exterior alterations because it is historic. This is puzzling to us because our house is specifically regulated as allowing an addition as long as the proper style, but the house has now been placed, de facto, on the historic register.

We have scheduled a meeting with the town building department, which is the agency which can overturn the recommendation of the Preservation Department. We're hoping to resolve the situation because our only other alternatives are to commence a law suit or sell the property and find another house.