Planning Application for Dropped Kerb- Do we need to reply to the Neighbor objection comments

mazibee

Hello Experts,

I have applied for a planning permission for a dropped kerb and our both adjacent neighbors have raised objections.

Neighbor consultancy expiry date is today. Due to COVID -19 the Planning case workers are working from home and not making site visits so any idea how they will decide the application without seeing  the actual situation physically.

Do we need to reply to those objections?

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Kind regards

Mazher

Hasbeen

mazibee said:

Hello Experts,

I have applied for a planning permission for a dropped kerb and our both adjacent neighbors have raised objections.

Neighbor consultancy expiry date is today. Due to COVID -19 the Planning case workers are working from home and not making site visits so any idea how they will decide the application without seeing  the actual situation physically.

Do we need to reply to those objections?

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Kind regards

Mazher

No. You do not need to reply to your Neighbours.  You have put in an application. They have objected. If the council require any further information they will contact you for any reply.

Davesnave

The case will be decided on evidence like the classification of the road and distance from significant features, like junctions, sharp bends etc.

If it's a public road, the case officer could probably work from Google Street View and an aerial map. You don't need to reply to objections.

TELLIT01

Do you know the detail of the objections?

mazibee

TELLIT01 said:

Do you know the detail of the objections?

We have a semidetached house and the objection comments from the neighbor joining our property are as follows

The issue with parking on the road it's already bad enough without someone having afull drop curb across their property from Boundry to Boundry. Also changing the line of the path ofaccess into the garden will create an uneven pathway and also the risk of flooding when it rainsheavily into adjacent properties, they already have a driveway that takes up the whole of the frontgarden. The proposed new driveway be higher than the existing therefore When we look at ourwindows all you will see is their cars in our site line

The comment form the neighbor on the other side are as follows

I want to raise the matter because: I would like to object to this plan because parking near our homes is already very difficult, plus the curbs and the garden walls help our gardens from flooding when it rains because our drives are sloped and opposite are fields and spring lane that are higher than we are so the water runs down to our property

On one side the neighbor house is owned by a lady and on the other side her mother  

SameOldRoundabout

I would object too probably parking is tight already and you are asking for a boundary to boundary dropped kerb. I wouldn’t be happy about it being raised either. 

You don’t need to reply however, the council will probably google map it and decide. 

Davesnave

mazibee said:

TELLIT01 said:

Do you know the detail of the objections?

We have a semi detached house and the objection comments from the neighbour joining our property are as follows

 they already have a driveway that takes up the whole of the frontgarden. The proposed new driveway be higher than the existing therefore When we look at ourwindows all you will see is their cars in our site line

I think you have probably given us too much info now! I was under the impression that you had no existing parking.

But whatever your neighbours and people here think, the proposal will be judged on its merits.

TELLIT01

If they win I would just park your own car on the road outside the house instead of on the drive.  Childish I know but their complaints also seem trivial.  I don't see why a section of drop kerb would be likely to cause flooding.

TheCyclingProgrammer

I don't think planning officers will be too concerned about the comments regarding the parking situation - nobody has a right to be able to park outside their home and if anything I'd have thought councils would favour off-street parking rather than on-street parking.

Comments about looking out of their window and seeing your cars are irrelevant and not valid objections from a planning POV.

The potential for increased flooding risk may be considered but leave it to the planning officer to decide. I wouldn't engage in any correspondence with the neighbours.

Davesnave

TELLIT01 said:

If they win I would just park your own car on the road outside the house instead of on the drive.  Childish I know but their complaints also seem trivial.  I don't see why a section of drop kerb would be likely to cause flooding.

Quite straightforward if you've witnessed it. Our previous house was subject to one instance of surface water flooding in the 21 years we lived there and the dropped kerb ensured that the water entered our drive when it would otherwise have been reduced or gone elsewhere. Fortunately, our drive was an in-house job, so the falls were correctly done away from the house and the flood went through the neighbour's garage.

I appreciate that a once in 20 year event might not seem like much, but it is when it happens!

mazibee

@Davesnave

@TheCyclingProgrammer

@TELLIT01

@Hasbeen

Sorry for the confusion

One of the neighbours whom we share the wall have a racer lorry truck i think 7.5 tonnes parked on the main road adjacent to our existing dropped kerb, when ever they move they parl their small car so that no one can park on the road.

Currently both me and my wife have our own cars and daughter will soon be using her own once she is able to book her driving tests . We have enough harstanding to accomodate 3 cars but need the to widen the existing dropped kerb.
Also in the currently scenario we have zero visibility when leaving home and joining the road , we have to make an educated guess as we cant see vehicles coming from both sides of the road, similarly when reversing the car in our home from the road , due to neighbor vehicles overhanging on the foot paths we cant see the pedestratians and their pets on the foothpath.

I have taken quite a few photos but have noticed that one of the neighbr (with whom we share a common wall) has moved his small vehicle (which normaly used to over hang on the footh path ) has moved on the road , and he was also discussing today with the other neighbour to move their cars (might be they have received some information that caseofficer from the council will visit the site to check the actual situation.

I have no what our neighbors plan to do and what the case officer will do?