If you need more room in your Torquay home, an extension is not automatically the best answer. A loft conversion, garage conversion or carefully planned extension can all create useful extra space. The right choice depends on the space you already have, what you want the new room to do, the structure of the property and your available budget.

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Extend if you like where you live and the house can take the space you need. Move if the plot is too small for the extension you want, or if the reason you need more room is really about the street, the schools or the commute rather than the square footage. That is the short version. The rest of this page is how to tell which one you are, before ...