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Dezeen’s top ten: planning cheats
In the last few weeks we’ve published a few projects where architects have come up with inventive ways of getting around restrictive planning requirements. Here’s a roundup of the most popular buildings we've featured on Dezeen where disguises, moving walls and even skis have been employed to skirt around these obligations.
![l House by moomoo architects l House by moomoo architects](http://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2009/07/l-house-by-moomoo-architects-1.jpg)
1. at the top of the list are these designs for a plastic-covered house in Poland, which feature an extra wall where the planning authorities wanted the facade to be.
![Sliding House by dRMM Sliding House by dRMM](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/03/dezeen_sliding-house.jpg)
2. in second place is Sliding House, a glazed house that can be transformed into a typical English barn by a 50-ton mobile structure that slides over the top.
![Old Workshop by Jack Woolley Old Workshop by Jack Woolley](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/02/dezeen_Old-Workshop-by-Jack-Woolley-1.jpg)
3. next up, architect Jack Woolley concealed this house and workshop behind a brick wall with a secret door so that no one would notice it was there.
![Las Arenas by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Las Arenas by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2011/05/dezeen_Las-Arenas-by-Rogers-Stirk-Harbour-+-Partners-1.jpg)
4. at number four is a leisure complex inside a former bullring, where architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners were able to retain the historically sensitive facade by lifting it up off the ground.
![Balmain Archive by Innovarchi Balmain Archive by Innovarchi](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/03/dezeen_Balmain-Archive-by-Innovarchi_1.jpg)
5. a copper-clad house extension comes in fifth place, after the architects got around the stipulation for a pitched roof by designed the whole building as if it were one.
![Wickstead Lodge by Baynes & Co Wickstead Lodge by Baynes & Co](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/03/Dezeen_Wickstead-Lodge-by-Adrian-Baynes_1.jpg)
6. number six is a house with an electronically controlled stone wall that slides across the facade to hide a large window that wouldn't otherwise have been allowed.
![Denizen Sauna by Denizen Works + Friends Denizen Sauna by Denizen Works + Friends](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/02/dezeen_Denizen-Sauna-by-Denizen-Works-and-Friends_1c.jpg)
7. in seventh position is a sled-like sauna on skis that can be towed out onto a lake, which was constructed after the client was refused permission for a permanent structure.
![House N by Sharon Neuman and Oded Stern-Meiraz House N by Sharon Neuman and Oded Stern-Meiraz](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/03/dezeen_House-N-by-Sharon-Neuman-and-Oded-Stern-Meiraz_1.jpg)
8. coming in eighth is a modern rectangular residence that hides behind a brick wall shaped like the silhouette of a gabled house.
![The Round Tower by De Matos Ryan The Round Tower by De Matos Ryan](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2012/02/Dezeen_The-Round-Tower-by-De-Matos-Ryan_3.jpg)
9. this house, number nine in our countdown, was hidden underground in order to maintain sight lines towards a listed stone tower on the site.
![University of Liverpool Heating Infrastructure by Levitt Bernstein University of Liverpool Heating Infrastructure by Levitt Bernstein](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2010/03/dzn_Energy-Centre-for-Liverpool-University-1.jpg)
10. last but not least is an energy centre designed to look like a row of gabled houses.
See you next month for another top ten!