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Neighbour renting Annex
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Not quite the same as the OP, but we have experience of something similar in our leafy, conservation area village.
We bought our current house about 20 months ago. One of our neighbours has a large-ish detached house they apparently built (he's a builder/developer) in the 1990s. Over the years since he has - according to another neighbour who has lived in the lane for nearly thirty years so knows everyone and everything, lol - added to the property piecemeal......first a large balcony, next a huge extension, then he enclosed said balcony to make it habitable space etc etc.
Anyway, when he applied for planning permission to enclose the balcony he said it was to create a granny annex. He was granted pp on the condition it was for family members only to live in and couldn't be let out. I've seen the online pp condition regarding this.
Fast forward a few years - I'm guessing the granny died, although the other neighbour said she never saw evidence of anyone living there (the neighbour in question has a ROW over her land so she sees all comings and goings
) - and he decided to let it out. As soon as it was advertised on RM with a letting agency our other neighbour dobbed him in to the council. Since we moved here the annex has been unoccupied, but six months ago he was advertising it again - I saw it myself and guess the other neighbour did too as she told me in passing she had reported him again.
It's a tiny space in an odd location so I can't really see who would want to rent it anyway, but IMHO as he's clearly breaking the condition of his pp he shouldn't be allowed to get away with it.......Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
Over £40,000 mis-sold PPI reclaimed0 -
'Elfnsaifty' sometimes gets taken to ridiculous extremes.
Now it seems the same is happening to 'planincontrole'.
Regulation in both areas serve useful functions, but when Jobsworths and Neighbours go picking through the fine print it's just plumb mad.
Live and let live.0
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