Planning objection - loss of outlook

phoebe1989seb

ACT1 wrote: »

An update: The planning application was refused this week on the parking issue and scale, massing, bulk and location (The proposed two storey side extension by reason of its overall width, size, scale and massing and breach of established building lines would constitute an over dominant and visually intrusive feature in the street scene on this prominent corner that would be out of keeping with the character and appearance of the original house and would be detrimental to the visual amenities of the wider street scene.)
I'm happy with that though I doubt that will be the end of it.....

Not necessarily.....

A few years before we purchased our last house a neighbouring (but not adjoining) owner put in an application for a new build (he'd already built four houses alongside) adjacent to the garden of what would later become our house.

*Our* garden was around a third of an acre and the proposed detached house was to be sited around halfway down the length of this and at a right-angle to it.

Because of the way the original houses in the village (ours was Georgian) were built, the gardens of neighbouring properties - and these new builds were erected in the garden of a former early Victorian hotel - ran diagonally away from the houses down to a stream so that our neighbour's plot and woodland beyond was visible from our rear windows.....difficult to picture I admit

Anyway, the planning application was refused on the grounds that it was out of keeping with the (non-listed) neighbouring properties. The applicant appealed, having amended his design and it almost got approval.......except for the fact it was deemed by the planning officer to have an overbearing and detrimental effect on the view from *our* house, which was referred to specifically in his dismissal of the appeal. He actually stated he was minded to approve it other than for that reason.

Admittedly that was in 2006 in rural Wiltshire - times have changed and different planning depts obviously have their own take on these things.....but don't assume the applicant will gain approval if he does appeal