Neighbour planning permission/building regs.

davsidipp

with regards neighbours wall .use the party walls act.

davsidipp

baldelectrician.my neighbour put in a downstairs toilet includingconnection to manhole.i complained to bc they went round put plug in manhole and toilet tested,passed he had not seen work or even seen that the plugs were in the same line.bc have no powers except the tick in the no column when selling your house.

Debt_Free_Chick

The point about retrospective PP is that it cannot be used as a "punishment" for not getting PP in the first place. The Town & Country Planning Act specificially states that a retrospective application has to be treated on the same planning merits as the original application (if it had been made).

What does this mean? A retrospective application will get PP if an original application would have got PP. A retrospective PP should be turned down, if the original application would have been turned down.

I have to admit that our local planning authority are very hot on this and don't simply give PP to retrospective applications. They go through exactly the same process as all other PPs.

Planning authorities must have valid planning reasons for turning down PP.

Now basically I’m in a bit of a dilemma. Should I do anything about it now?

If you believe that the planning regs are there to see that the same rules are applied to everyone, then you can report them to the local planning authority. You should be able to do this anonymously and your planning authority may have a facility for you to do this online. Personally, I don't see that friends, neighbours should be treated any differently to anyone else ... "Oh, it's OK. They don't have PP but they're my neighbour ..." doesn't have a very fair ring to it.

Would I be doing them a favour in the long run?

I doubt they'd thank you, if they found out

What would the building inspector do if he came up and couldn’t inspect certain vital elements of the build i.e. depth of the footings - as they’ve already filled them?

He would just want them to dig an inspection pit next to the building so he can see the line of work carried out. No big deal. It's what you would do if you wanted to see if an existing single storey building could support another storey.

But .... I echo what AlanM says. How do you know they don't have PP? Or that the building inspector has not been out?