Planning objections and 'right to light'

Doozergirl

Have you posted on the garden law forums? I cannot recall anyone documenting using this process on these forums in the 11 years I've been here and know no one in real life who has

This looks like an expensive process, producing technical documents and going to court.

My experience of proposed development is that it doesn't affect house prices once the buildings are up. What are they building and where? Is it flats? Planning departments do aim to protect valuable light to properties in the design guidance that they issue. Ours is quite specific about distances, heights and protecting light from the south.

1ipstick

Thanks for your reply! Yes I think it's an issue most people either don't know about or get confused about, and/or is difficult or expensive to bring a case. I'm going to chat to a couple of surveyors but I'd love to have a general feel of what happens in cases like these - hopefully it wouldn't necessarily go to court.
I'm in a residential street with fairly large gardens that over the years has had all sorts of small houses built in the end of the gardens to the extent that we'll now be one of the only ones left without it. There are 3 houses currently being constructed close by and this one proposes 4. My infant son has literally never been in the garden without construction going on within meters, which I find depressing.

Of course these won't be 'affordable' either or make nice family homes, just cramming as many small badly designed houses into as small a space as possible for maximum profit from people desperate to live in this expensive city!