thank you for the information. reading your link indicates following
Where the house has not been extended previously, the floor area of any such extension shall not exceed 40 square metres.
we previously did extend both ground and upper floors which we have been granted planning permission this was completed 3 years ago. Overall we added ~50Sqm ground and upper floors. Ground floor was about 20msq, does above mean I can extend up to 20sqm more (with 25sqm open space still available).