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Neighbours Extension / Planning issues - Impact on selling my property
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Although I agree with you and almost raised the search thing myself, it's also true that an increasing number of people use internet resources themselves to investigate property/areas etc.Doozergirl wrote: »The only searches carried out are on the property, not neighbours. Anything else has to be purposely commissioned and paid for.
It's the neighbour's problem and whilst information is available if one were to go looking, it's no one else's business or worry.
It's easy enough to look at planning data on local authority maps and zoom in on anything that attracts the attention.
For example if I look at our property, I see that just across the road, major enforcement action was taken. It's all highlighted in lurid red & yellow if I press the right buttons!
I think this sort of searching still isn't mainstream, but the existence of sites like this one has probably boosted people's desire to find things out for themselves.
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Perhaps things are different here in Scotland, but when I have bought a property, any planning application on neighbouring property, that was within the range for you to be notified at the time, was highlighted, and I then went off and looked at those applications to see if they might concern me or not.Doozergirl wrote: »No it won't! The only searches carried out are on the property, not neighbours. Anything else has to be purposely commissioned and paid for.
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I certainly went looking for planning applications for a neighbouring property when I was buying. As Davesnave says it's really easy to do nowadays.0
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Perhaps things are different here in Scotland, but when I have bought a property, any planning application on neighbouring property, that was within the range for you to be notified at the time, was highlighted, and I then went off and looked at those applications to see if they might concern me or not.
Yes, then. It's different in Scotland. In England it's inside the property boundaries unless specifically requested.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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