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2 storey extension contention

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  • shaydoc
    shaydoc Posts: 33 Forumite
    Doozergirl wrote: »
    The OP has to check their SPG. Not everywhere is the same. My area has no elevation guideline, but habitable room to wall is 12 metres.

    There are no rules, only guidelines, which are frequently relaxed in new build estates...

    Unless the half already directly facing the neighbour's wall is a habitable room, I don't see too much of a challenge being mounted.

    Our main living room is facing their backgarden, so that would be the one being impacted
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,082 Forumite
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    shaydoc wrote: »
    Our main living room is facing their backgarden, so that would be the one being impacted
    What faces the existing gable wall?
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  • shaydoc
    shaydoc Posts: 33 Forumite
    That is a living room also. Its our kids living room i guess
  • Doozergirl
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    shaydoc wrote: »
    That is a living room also. Its our kids living room i guess
    So it's a habitable room that would have been considered in the intial application and known to be facing that gable end.

    You'll be hard pushed to demonstrate that what they decided on when your road was built was acceptable then but isn't now.

    I can't see the photo anymore, but the house doesn't get any closer to you than it already is? Does the house get higher uphill from yours at that point?

    You'll have to measure the distances with a scale ruler once the plans are submitted and see if they comply with those distances.

    I still think this should start with a conversation with the planning officer, not a written objection.

    You can probably set an alert up on your local planning authority website for new applications in a certain radius of your house.
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  • shaydoc
    shaydoc Posts: 33 Forumite
    Doozergirl wrote: »
    So it's a habitable room that would have been considered in the intial application and known to be facing that gable end.

    You'll be hard pushed to demonstrate that what they decided on when your road was built was acceptable then but isn't now.

    I can't see the photo anymore, but the house doesn't get any closer to you than it already is? Does the house get higher uphill from yours at that point?

    You'll have to measure the distances with a scale ruler once the plans are submitted and see if they comply with those distances.

    I still think this should start with a conversation with the planning officer, not a written objection.

    You can probably set an alert up on your local planning authority website for new applications in a certain radius of your house.


    Yes i agree. Better discussing with the planning officer
    first as opposed to making a written objection.. not looking to cause a fuss, but not looking for my rights to be impinged upon either
  • Doozergirl
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    Sounds like a plan!
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  • planning_officer
    planning_officer Posts: 1,161 Forumite
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    dc197 wrote: »
    It must vary by authority. Applications in my LA are discussed at a meeting at which the public can listen and developers and objectors can speak.
    Like Doozergirl says, that's a Planning Committee meeting - the way in which applications get called to committee does vary between authorities but, as a rule, only around 10% of applications will generally go to Planning Committee - it would be completely unworkable for every application to go! Not enough time in the day... or the week...!!
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