Someone has applied for planning permission on my home

lush_walrus

Yep post back...I would like to know!

donglefan

Hmm, this is a little bit embarrassing.
I managed to speak to someone in the planning department today. They checked and said there is no application for an extension to the house, only the application made by my insurer's builder for the underpinning work.
Seems like the neighbours' somehow misunderstood this to be for an extension.
Sorry to have wasted everyone's time. Still it was interesting and I learnt something so sincere thanks to all.

Doozergirl

More embarassing for your interfering neighbour I think.

I hope you're very happy once your home has been restored to it's former glory and you're back living there.

Might be worth giving your insurance company a gee-up if the builders aren't putting much effort into it. The actual underpinning on our last house took about a week. Granted there's a lot of tidying up to do after though.

lush_walrus

Dont be embarrassed, thats the best solution there could have been. Hope it all goes well for you.

Nenen

So glad you got it sorted out Dongle... what a relief! I only saw this thread today and although you have found out that in your case it was a mistake on your neighbour's part it really did happen to us a few years ago!
We owned a largish victorian terraced house in London and admitedly it was on the market. However, we had an offer from a man who said he was buying for his sister who was coming over from India. He knew we wanted to move quickly (as did our estate agents) as I was pregnant at the time and wanted to move before the birth. He made an acceptable offer saying he would be ready to exchange within 4 weeks. 4 weeks came and went with many excuses, as did 8 weeks and then 12 weeks... at which point we bailed out and put the property back on the market. Only then did our 'dear' estate agents deign to tell us that the reason he was stalling on exchange was that he had applied for outline planning permission to convert the house into two flats (to sell for profit) and had not yet heard from planning department without us being any the wiser. Depite us still living there no one ever wrote to us or tried to contact us to let us know that this had been done. According the the EA at the time anyone can apply for outline permission even when they don't own it... I'm thinking of applying for a loft conversion for 10 Downing Street!:rotfl:

clutton_2

surely you cannot Possibly want to live over the Blair household !!!!!!!!!

donglefan

This site is rather heartwarming as well as practical. Isn't it lovely how strangers pile in to help.