Best Way To Object A Planning Application? Hes At It AGAIN!! UPDATED 19/06

chris_m

That sounds eminently sensible to me.

harryhound

Yes but sometimes the result is perverse:
Two identical thin Victorian detached houses side by side. Typical Victorian design of two up two down with a rear extension with one up one down but only 2/3 rds of the width. say 8ft wide rather than 13 ft. Downstairs in the rear room is a narrow kitchen.
To get light into the 13ft X 12 ft rear (dining) sash window there is a side return. (there is also a side facing window lighting the dining room).
Both houses are entitled to a single story rear extension of 4 meters BUT it will be only 8ft wide.
http://www.kingston.gov.uk/browse/environment/planning/permitted_development/rear_extensions.htm

What both owners would like to do is prop the upstairs wall next to the side return on an RSJ and roof in the side return, complete with "Velux" type roof windows all the way along the side of the kitchen and along side the permitted development of the 4 meter x 8ft wide extension.
Result a nice modern kitchen 13ft wide, with roof windows over the sink etc. plus a breakfast room 13 ft wide & 3 - 4 meters long into the garden. BUT can't do as each house would be able to see the other's extension into the side return and then into the back garden return when looking out of their upstairs rear windows.
(All these measurements are approx as the new walls would need to comply with current insulation standards - a narrow kitchen with 9 inch solid walls stays chilly and grows black condensation mould).

Probably if both neighbours clubbed together and put in a joint application for planning permission and went to appeal they would get it as at ground level the extensions would be almost invisible behind their close boarded wooden fences. However both householders would be several thousands out of pocket financing the planning system.
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TSquare

Divadee,
I don't know whether the following info is of any help to you, it might be worth discussing with your planning consultant, I am not an expert.

I believe the "The protection of garden land (development control) act 2009" was supposed to be to help prevent unsuitable infill development and prevent repeated planning applications when a site has previously been refused permission.

I hope it is of interest to you and wish you well.