Scaffolding issues next door

Nukumai

keystone wrote: »

Now all your readers have either Googled putlog or haven't had the cojones to ask.

I'm unashamed to admit that I googled it. To be fair, though, I'm not a Brit (I'm a kiwi) and - though I spent countless hours on building sites with my dad growing up (he's a Fibrous Plasterer) - I have had to un-learn much of the terminology that I grew up with.

I remember a builder staring at me blank-faced when I mentioned putting in some "dwangs" in an internal, timber-framed partition. Though I quickly learned that these are "noggings" in local parlance, one of the Scottish plumbers overheard, and mentioned that he referred to them as "dwangs" north of the border. So it's not just me!

I've been here in London 22 years now and still learn something new every day!

southcoastrgi

haha don't worry about it i've been in the building game for 32 yrs & i've just had to google Fibrous Plasterer

keystone

and so, I have to admit, did I.

Cheers

mysk_girl

Sigh. And it starts again. They are doing the roof, but appear to have raised the ridge by a couple of feet while doing it. No planning permission. Or any permission for the chimney to be removed or for the 2 large (2.4m wide x 1.1m tall) windows that have appeared in what was a blank gable end.

Have found the website to report to our local planners, but what (if anything) can they do? It's going to look a bit silly when it's done!

Jaynne

mysk_girl wrote: »

Sigh. And it starts again. They are doing the roof, but appear to have raised the ridge by a couple of feet while doing it. No planning permission. Or any permission for the chimney to be removed or for the 2 large (2.4m wide x 1.1m tall) windows that have appeared in what was a blank gable end.

Have found the website to report to our local planners, but what (if anything) can they do? It's going to look a bit silly when it's done!

I'm not an expert but from what I've read I think the raising of the ridge requires permission - don't think removing chimneys does and windows are fine but being gable end I assume they point towards you in which case they would have to be obscure glass with no verandas/balconies. This is just from me having a quick skim read of planning requirements various times as we've looked vaguely at doing a minor loft conversion to create some office space.

I believe the council can issue an order to have the building put in a state that complies with regs or back to its original state.

southcoastrgi

it depends what planning permission they have or has been passed, planning permission is giving on the plans submitted & you can't just change them, so for example the ridge has been raised & windows put in then they need to get the plans amended however this is done before the work is done not after, if anything doesn't comply with the passed drawing the council will make them change it back inc removing any windows & lowering the ridge.

mysk_girl

There is no permission in place for anything. The windows don't point towards us, we are perpendicular to them, but there are others affected. And their size and construction are totally out of proportion to the building, they are bedroom windows (big ones!) and are not obscure.

southcoastrgi

even PD requires some kind of agreed permission you can't just do anything you want even if it's not being done to full building regs or full plan submissions, speak to your local building control officer & get him round asap

mysk_girl

More phone calls in the morning then!

mysk_girl

Planning officers were out last week apparently, which I was highly impressed by, until I realised that someone had obviously reported them last week! They have BR permissions in place but have gone with an approved inspector rather than council, so council won't intervene on the BR side. I guess we just have to wait now :-)