Unwanted Neighbours - What to do?

mutey

My next door neighbour is selling their house to a company that is going to change it into a home for therapeutic care and education for children 7-13, with emotional and behavioural difficulties.

What rights do I have to stop this from happening and how do I go about stopping it?

pcombo

mutey wrote: »

My next door neighbour is selling their house to a company that is going to change it into a home for therapeutic care and education for children 7-13, with emotional and behavioural difficulties.

What rights do I have to stop this from happening and how do I go about stopping it?

You have no rights to how someone lives and operates there life.

Who do you think you are lol.

alistair.long

you should have been notified of the planning, and you should have objected.

Complaint to planning department

ali-t

surely there would need to be planning permission to turn it from a residence to a place of business? If so you should be able to appeal but it is no guarantee of outcome.

jamespir

why are they unwanted

mutey

The sale hasn't gone through yet but my next door neighbour warned me that the people they are selling the house to are going to change it into this care home. So ill just have to wait until the sale has gone through and they put in planning permission and then object? Nothing I can do at this stage to stop them from even buying the house?

Unwanted due to noise, damage, bratt'ish behaviour, loss of property value due to no one wanting to move their.

stsarina

And may I ask politely why you even want to object to it in the first place?

mutey

Unwanted due to noise, damage, bratt'ish behaviour, loss of property value due to no one wanting to move their. The company has various houses like these around the town and the kids damage things, climb over next doors fences, noisey etc.

elsien

Why are you assuming the worst without trying to find out more about the scheme and what it may have to offer?

Very reminscent of the nimby's who tried to stop my workplace (a small group home for adults with learning disabilities) being built, through sheer prejudice and misconceptions. Most of which could have been answered if they'd bothered to turn up to the meeting we arranged to explain who we were and what we were doing.
And I have to say we cause far less noise and hassle than the house shared by twenty somethings up the road, and the families whose kids run riot in the garden at all hours. By comparison we are model neighbours.

mutey

I'm not assuming the worst. I've heard from many people who live near these houses about the grief they receive from these kids. I'm not saying the schemes are bad, just dont want to be living next door to one when Im planning on selling my house within the next few years. Ill be losing money and in these tough property times I dont need another hurdle.

elsien

Maybe some of them do get grief from the homes you are talking about. I would suggest there is also a fair possibility that they are getting the blame for things they haven't done, and that stories are exaggerated in the telling. We have had environmental health on the phone a few times because people have assumed all noise is coming from us, when if they'd walked up the street to check first, they'd have found out it was someone else entirely.
If you have objections, then use the planning process, but don't expect unsubstantiated comments about noise and property prices to have any effect, you need to have a bit more to go on than that.