My neighbour wants to build stables/sand paddock on green belt land. WHAT CAN I DO?

John_Pierpoint

There is something like a watered down version of this about 500 yards from where I live.
In this case there is a country single track lane with half a dozen original (pre-WW2) cottages and houses on one side. Over the road there is an overgrown hedge; behind that hedge someone has built what is proposed here except for putting sand on the "menage". Thinking that the new "farmer", who had bought the farm of an old boy who had died, was building barns without non objection from the local authority, I called in to check with my neighbouring local authority. It had all been passed without a murmur.
(No I did not bother to check who had been consulted BUT the boundary of the authority runs down the middle of the road)

The result is a bit of a scruffy mess of wooden stables on concrete aprons complete with stacks of bales and a midden, plus a horse-box trailer or two.

Realistically the field being used is of marginal agricultural value and the dark green buildings are marginal in joining up adjacent settlements; the extra traffic generation is minimal.

A regular boot sale would be worse.

This may well be the thin edge of the wedge being applied to the urban fringe, but as I have posted above, rising house-hold numbers makes intrusions into the green belt inevitable. The cash strapped local authority will have to consider how much tax payers' money to spend if it wants to object.

John.

Meanwhile a friend of mine is having to reposition her new staircase, because the builder has put it 3 cm out of position, relative to the plans that have been passed for a total renovation of a 150 year old house.

Dando83

Gregoryl wrote: »

I have also come up with the following statement: The impact of the development on the neighbours would breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which relates to rights to privacy and family life.

Unless you plan to pony up for a solicitor and take this case to the EU, you're wasting your time. I work in customer service and this legislation is routinely made into a farce by complainants who've exhausted any practical or reasonable arguments.

The biggest single way to beat this has already been suggested...get as many neighbours on board with their own complaints, or at the very least, sign yours petition style.