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Planning app next door during conveyancing
milliefive
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We are 10 days from the agreed completion date, and we have just heard that a neighbour has put in a planning application for a house on his garden near our property. We had no inkling this was coming!
When we filled in the forms, we said in all honesty that there was no planning application. At the time, there wasn't. Our buyer's solicitors have completed their searches before this application appeared 10 days ago.
We have had no letter, no sign on the lamppost etc. We've found out through neighbours' gossip. The only official way of finding out is to go searching on the council website.
What do we have to do legally? We don't want to cause trouble for either side of the deal.
When we filled in the forms, we said in all honesty that there was no planning application. At the time, there wasn't. Our buyer's solicitors have completed their searches before this application appeared 10 days ago.
We have had no letter, no sign on the lamppost etc. We've found out through neighbours' gossip. The only official way of finding out is to go searching on the council website.
What do we have to do legally? We don't want to cause trouble for either side of the deal.
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The only thing you can do is notify the buyer and your solicitor but I wouldn't imagine it changes anything as far as the sale goes. But the soon to be new owner may want to raise an objection.0
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Strange you haven't had a letter if it is that close to you.
However yes you need to let your solicitor know as I would think you still need to disclose relevant issues as they come up0 -
Since you have Exchanged Contracts there is nothing either you nor the buyer can do.milliefive wrote: »We are 10 days from the agreed completion date,.
You have to sell. He has to buy.0 -
Yep, assuming you have exchanged then go ahead and tell them, there's nothing they can do to pull out. But they may wish to submit objections to the planning application, and you may wish to do so yourself.Changing the world, one sarcastic comment at a time.0
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Yes, the OP doesn't make it clear if exchange has happened - although it sounds as if it may have with talk of a *completion* date.....unless exchange and completion are due to take place simultaneously?Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
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