Objecting against planning permission for a new build?

shireknight

A notice has appeared on the lampost outside my house warning that the owners of the house next door but one from mine have applied for planning permission to build a new house in their garden.

I've been to my local council website and looked at the plans and to my horror find that my bedroom is within about 50 feet of the new build and I'll be able to see the construction going on simply by sitting up in bed.

So what I hear you ask? well the problem is that I work nights (5x 12 hour shifts per week) and they don't tend to build houses at night so clearly I'm going to be totally screwed.

I have a very stressful job and am already on prescription medicine for high blood pressure, is the fact that I work nights enough to block the planning permission being granted or do the council see me working nights as my own fault and not something that will be taken into consideration please?

tigsly

I wouldnt have thought your work situation would affect planning

the location of the building - to yours -and how 'in keeping with the local street view' might tho?!

Is the planned hosue similar to those around it or will it really stand out as differnent.. as a local you can object i guess- but i'd be lookig at the planning portal and see on what groudsn an objection can be made and win

TheCyclingProgrammer

Unfortunately I don't think your issue is a valid planning concern.

Take a look at this list for an idea if what is and isn't considered a valid planning concern:

http://www.richmond.gov.uk/what_is_a_valid_objection_to_a_planning_application

Invest in some earplugs?

davidmcn

Disturbance during construction is viewed as inevitable, and not a relevant reason for objecting to development. Often there are conditions about times for construction, but if so they're not likely to assist your situation!

shireknight

Oh dear the only issue on that list I can see that may be a legitimate concern is traffic generation then as our road is a cul-de-sac and is already crammed with cars struggling to find places to park.

Might well be a case of needing earplugs lol -awww crap

TheCyclingProgrammer

Have you seen the plans? The parking situation might be a valid concern but if the new build also has good off street parking and a garage it might not help anyway.

Freecall

Planning consents can and do often include restrictions on the construction process. Unfortunately for you these are likely to restrict operations to normal working hours during the week.

Your personal employment arrangements can not be used to prevent the development.

shireknight

I think I spotted a major flaw in the plans, the new development is being presented as having it's own off-road parking spaces however the reason for this is because these parking spaces are on the plans as being in exactly the same place as the existing houses parking spaces so clearly the existing spaces are being turned over to the new build to aid the planning application.

However if the new build gets the parking spaces then where are the vehicles (a flatbed lorry and people carrier) belonging to the tenants living in the existing property going to park?

The plans indicate that there is a parking space directly in front of the existing house however that's a lie as that is a very small front garden which even if it was paved over would be nowhere near large enough to hold one vehicle let alone what they park on the spaces at the moment.

Annie1960

I suspect you will need to come up with some more objections than parking to prevent the development.

shireknight

Well parking and noise is all I have lol, oh well I know all the other neighbours around the proposed site are annoyed too (including the people who live in the existing house as it's their landlord who is building the new house in their back garden not them) so maybe they will come up with something else to block it with sigh.

AdrianC

shireknight wrote: »

...then where are the vehicles (a flatbed lorry and people carrier) belonging to the tenants living in the existing property going to park?

Unless by "lorry", you really mean "van" (3.5t max), then it's very unlikely they should be parking that at home overnight anyway. Anything bigger than Transit-sized needs an Operators Licence, and that requires the vehicles to be kept in proper yards with proper access. Not outside the driver's house.