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hillwalker2004 wrote: »

Re: Planning Permission I understand what you say about the properties being abandoned and I dont think there is any doubt about that and yes both properties would be in the green belt. That said, what would be more desirable 2 properties that are an eye sore, one of which has been vandalised? However I know the law is an !!! some times!

I see your point, but it won't hold any water unfortunately if the previous residential use of the site(s) really has been 'abandoned' - an application to rebuild a house will be regarded exactly the same as an isolated new house in the countryside and unlikely to be permitted - especially, like Doozergirl says, if you're in Green Belt.

hillwalker2004 wrote: »

The plans also stated a building condition that they may not start building until materials have been approved by the council and are in the same form and texture as the existing building that is brick and concrete tiles. Anyway the applicants ignored this and started anyway building a covered way out of grey metal posts and glazed the top of it. I asked the council where else on the property does these structures already exist to meet the condition and there response was that its not relevant as no covered way exists elsewhere around the property. So I said to them that the condition they have applied is effectively pointless if it has no basis.

Quite agree with you there - by constructing a glazed covered way they clearly have not complied with the Condition, irrespective of what the Council say (and the justification given by the Council is complete nonsense!). Nevertheless, if it's causing no harm, the Council wouldn't have taken any enforcement action over the breach - but that does not excuse their feeble explanation of the Condition! Really they should not have attached the Condition in the first place - my guess is that it was a lazy Officer attaching it to the permission , without looking properly at the plans and realising that the materials could not possibly match for the covered way.

mynameisdave

Bump. Any news/updates?