Opposing Planning Permission

penguine

I successfully opposed planning permission about 7-8 years ago. The freeholder of the building we lived in wanted to add 3 new flats on the roof. This ended up being rejected in favour of only 2 new flats because of my objections.

I went to see the planning officer first to talk through my objections and they explained what would be considered valid grounds to object which was very helpful.

Good luck.

specialboy

The only thing that looks wrong to me is the rear parking, other than that they look ok.

moneyistooshorttomention

greatgimpo wrote: »

Sunlight is not a right according to council planners.

I believe you acquire the "Right to Light" after 20 years??

bouicca21

I successfully opposed a planning application by a neighbour several years ago. I trawled over the council planning site for information about planning policies and worded my objection in terms that reflected those policies. Parking and increase of traffic was one factor; I also pointed out the dangers created by cars accessing the site because of the way the road layout worked at that particular spot.

Looks to me as though you have valid objections that just need to be tweaked into planning speak. It is also useful to get other neighbours to object, also fitting their objections to planning policy.

Jaguar_Skills

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I believe you acquire the "Right to Light" after 20 years??

Technically 20 years yes but the actual period is 19 year and 1 day as the only way to prevent an acquisition is an interruption for 1 year.

The right however is not to sunlight. It is to sky visibility. The basic premise is that if 50% of your room can still see sky following the development you are unable to bring a civil claim.

But the above is only relevant post planning if the OP does not get the planning rejected in the first instance.

Jhoney_2

Take pictures of affected areas for any future comparison.
Suggest that some of the purchased land area is used to provide parking or that underground parking is made a condition of acceptance of the proposal.
Raise concerns about any environmental issues e.g pollution and noise.
Suggest that as these are homes, they should reflect the existing homes in the immediate area e.g height levels.

We did this successfully some years ago to prevent over development and what was done compliments the street and provides a far better quality of new homes.

PS An architect friend once mentioned that the tall boards that go up around development sites create the loss of some light and if not objected to when up, this goes against you if you raise concerns later.

Document everything, but be fair and see if you can steer things in a good direction for everyone - not just yourself.

davidmcn

Jhoney wrote: »

Suggest that some of the purchased land area is used to provide parking

The fact that the allocated parking spaces are marked suggests that the development does include those areas of road.

Jhoney_2

davidmcn wrote: »

The fact that the allocated parking spaces are marked suggests that the development does include those areas of road.

Thanks, I cannot see the plans clearly so my reply was just general info.

System

davidmcn wrote: »

The fact that the allocated parking spaces are marked suggests that the development does include those areas of road.

Unless they are working on the theory of 'I own to the centre of the road'

Although on paper it may be the case, if the roadway is adopted then owning to the centre will no longer have any bearing as everybody will have the right to pass and repass

davidmcn

!!!!!! wrote: »

if the roadway is adopted then owning to the centre will no longer have any bearing as everybody will have the right to pass and repass

No harm in checking, but if that were the case I doubt they'd be daft enough to try getting it past the council (who presumably know what they've adopted).