Does planning permission have to be advertised?!

Mrs_Imp

Depends what price people put on not having the new development there.

I've seen people buy neighbouring plots of land before, just to prevent a house being built next door to them. An expensive garden for some, but peace of mind for them.

Fuzzyness

true. but in the example you refer this has occured before someone has applied and gained planning permission for their land. now that PP has been granted the value of their land has increased and so the owner would be unlikely to sell it for less than he could feasbily get from a developer.

thegirlintheattic

planning_officer wrote: »

Surely you will be able to look on your Council's website and see the details of any planning application - the vast majority of Councils have all such details online, including a map you can zoom into, or search by postcode - it's very easy! Plus, if you're phoning to ask about something you could have found out about yourself, you'll be wasting the officer's time!

Just one thought, there is a slight chance that this application may be quite old, as the 3 year time limit only relates to implementing it, i.e. starting work. I've dealt with several cases recently where planning permission was granted around 20 years ago and provided the work started and the developer can prove that - foundations dug is the most common way of implementing a permission - then the permission remains 'live' forever. So in that scenario the developer could finish off the works at any time. It's certainly not a common situation though.

I have already looked on the council website. They list applications received by week. Considering I don't have any idea what week the planning application was submitted it would take hours and hours to search through every weeks list and only the last two years are shown on the site.

pimento

quintwins wrote: »

Planning permission usually send letters out to all houses in the area ...

No they don't. We had a planning application for next door to us and the property applying has about 30 adjacent neighbours and only some got letters. When we asked, the council said they don't send to everyone.

pimento

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

I have already looked on the council website. They list applications received by week. Considering I don't have any idea what week the planning application was submitted it would take hours and hours to search through every weeks list and only the last two years are shown on the site.

You can search by address.

thegirlintheattic

pimento - no facility to search by address.

Thanks all.

I contacted the council. Planning permission was applied for in early 2011 and the council claim a notice would have been placed on nearby railings; although I certainly don't remember seeing it and it's opposite my front door.

Council said that they had received no objections and that it was essentially too late to do anything about it now. They are going to have someone call me back later as I have asked questions as to how the decision was made in regards to things like traffic, impact on other houses by reducing sun but they didn't have the information to hand. I realise that this won't make any difference now but I'd think to know how they think removing an area used for parking and replacing it with several large houses (without their own parking) is going to help parking in a village already stuffed full of cars.

Hopefully the land won't sell and planning permission will expire like others have said here. There are several new developments in the village and most of these are empty because people just are not interested, I'm hoping this will put off developers.

Mrs_Imp

Fuzzyness wrote: »

true. but in the example you refer this has occured before someone has applied and gained planning permission for their land. now that PP has been granted the value of their land has increased and so the owner would be unlikely to sell it for less than he could feasbily get from a developer.

Nope. It happened AFTER plannng permission was granted. They essentially paid planning permission price for an extension to their garden. In their minds it was money well spent, and they were very happy with their purchase.

Imagine if there were 20 houses in the village that all felt they would lose around 10k off the value of their house if the development goes ahead. That's potentially 200k for the land. In some parts of the country that would easily buy the land.

OP, can you persuade all your neighbours to contact the Council and ask the same as you. If enough people start questioning the lack of planning notice, then they *might* start to look in to why no-one had seen it. Get your village on board and make some noise about it.

You also need to be looking for great crested newts, badgers, domice, bats and protected plant species on the land. If there any any nice big trees, then check if they have tree protection orders on them.

Cash-Cow_3

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

the council claim a notice would have been placed on nearby railings; although I certainly don't remember seeing it and it's opposite my front door.

The notice probably was posted but the applicant likely removed it (or teenagers did) about 5 minutes after it went up.

Takeaway_Addict

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

pimento - no facility to search by address.

Thanks all.

I contacted the council. Planning permission was applied for in early 2011 and the council claim a notice would have been placed on nearby railings; although I certainly don't remember seeing it and it's opposite my front door.

Council said that they had received no objections and that it was essentially too late to do anything about it now. They are going to have someone call me back later as I have asked questions as to how the decision was made in regards to things like traffic, impact on other houses by reducing sun but they didn't have the information to hand. I realise that this won't make any difference now but I'd think to know how they think removing an area used for parking and replacing it with several large houses (without their own parking) is going to help parking in a village already stuffed full of cars.

Hopefully the land won't sell and planning permission will expire like others have said here. There are several new developments in the village and most of these are empty because people just are not interested, I'm hoping this will put off developers.

Unlikely to allow the planning permission to expire, they may as well make a meaningful start...ie foundations and then I believe this keeps PP forever.

Someone can correct me if I am wrong...always willing to learn

Fuzzyness

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

Unlikely to allow the planning permission to expire, they may as well make a meaningful start...ie foundations and then I believe this keeps PP forever.

Someone can correct me if I am wrong...always willing to learn

its certainly one way of doing it. they could just reapply to extend the permission which is probably easier.