Yes, and with less interference than almost anywhere on this stretch of coast. Two listed buildings in the entire village. No conservation area. No scheduled monument. Whatever ends up delaying your extension here, it will not be a heritage officer with a strong view about mortar.
The listing register records 2 listed buildings in the village: none at grade one, none at grade two star, and 2 at grade two. Listing covers the whole building, inside and out, so whoever owns those two needs listed building consent for work that is a weekend job anywhere else, including things as small as a window frame or an internal partition. For every other home here, the register is a piece of trivia rather than a constraint. Places that market themselves on heritage tend to hand you a conservation area officer along with the sea view. This one hands you neither.
People are visibly getting on with it. The planning record for the area holds 1,309 applications between April 2024 and June 2026, with 565 of those falling in the most recent twelve months. That is not a village where altering a house is treated as an eccentric ambition. Anyone worried about being the first person on their road to submit drawings can relax, because they will not be the first person on their road this month.
In practice the split is the ordinary one. Modest rear extensions, loft conversions and outbuildings usually fall under permitted development, meaning no application at all, provided the house has not already spent those rights on a previous owner's ambitions and provided they have not been withdrawn for that particular property. Anything larger, anything projecting forward of the building line, and anything to a flat rather than a house needs a full application. Worth checking the specific property rather than assuming: about 30% of dwellings here are bungalows and roughly 20% are detached, and bungalows in particular tend to have space around them, which is precisely the stock that grows outwards without upsetting anybody.
Freedom to alter your home is the standout strength of this address. The heritage constraints amount to two buildings and nothing else, the local planning record shows hundreds of households already doing it, and the only rules in your way are the ones that apply everywhere in the country.