Help with Neighbours Caravan

jessbob

I would definitely give the local authority a call. He cannot keep a static which is blocking your light and basically interfering with your enjoyment of your property.

It may be worth calling into your Citizens Advice Centre if the Council are not any help.

sounds like your neighbour is like mine, with the fires in the garden and being totally disrespectful in this respect. Mine used to run his car maintenance business from the front of his house as well.

hollydays

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/

Also,you need to establish if a static caravan is classed as a caravan,or classed as a building.I take it it wasn't towed to your location?

Who deals with blocked light,is it environmental health Department?

marleyboy

As far as I am aware, if he had planning permission, you would have been notified PRIOR and not by himself.

I would look into whether or not he DOES have planning permission. I think its highly improbable.

Pollycat

I'm not sure if every local authority works the same, but we had a letter recently from ours about proposed planning permission for an extension to a house that is close to ours.

We were able to view the appication plans on-line, and (luckily) it's not an issue for us.

I would do as other posters have suggested and find out exactly what this caravan is classed as, whether planning permission is required and whether planning permission has been applied for/granted in an anonymous way before approaching the council with a complaint.

Good luck, I hope you get this sorted out.

mighty_hammers

my neighbour put up a 10ft fence and I complained to the council and they had to reduce the height to 8ft the legally allowed hight.

mrcol1000

There is no laws to protect your light. No-one has a "right" to day light. If your light is being blocked out by something your neighbour has done then its a private matter between you and your neighbour. If they put up something they shouldn't have its a planning issue.
People are allowed to have bonfires as long as they don't burn any toxins (usually if the smoke is dark grey or black then your burning stuff you shouldn't) or burn commercial/trade waste. If the start a bonfire while your have your washing out then thats a private matter between you and your neighbour. If your neighbour is having a bonfire every week then that is an offence. You should speak to your local environmental health department of the council.
Fences can be built without planning permission up to a certain height.
The thing is if you want to complain about burning then your probably have to give your name and address especially if its because they are burning regularly.
Even if you don't give your detials your neighbour will proboably guess where it came from.
The choice is do you keep your neighbour happy and put up with it or complain and upset your neighbour?
If the council hasn't got back to you then you need to speak to your local councillor as its amazing how fast council departments respond when a councillor gets involved.

Errata

told my wife he has planning permission for it.

Bet he hasn't. He can't use it as accommodation, for a business, for a Wendy House or a garden ornament.

tbw

hollydays wrote: »

You need to speak to the planning department,maybe also look at your deeds re restrictions and fence heights.
Who's he planning to accommodate there:eek:

What did you say to him to make him say there is nothing you can do about it?
Presumably if he had applied for planning permission,you would have seen the publicly displayed notices?
Sure someone will come along soon who knows this stuff,in the meantime,try not to get into conflict with him,even though he sounds a pain in the rear,smile,I am sure it is solvable by the council/county council.

I thought that the Planning Dept. usually contacted the immediate neighbours to inform them an application had been received ?

marleyboy

Thats right, they can force a neighbour to cut down hedge trees if it interferes with the view from your property

angle

tbw wrote: »

I thought that the Planning Dept. usually contacted the immediate neighbours to inform them an application had been received ?

They do where I live. They ought to at least put notices up on lampposts or stick a copy through your letter box giving you x number of weeks to object.