My extension & my neighbour

markin

Gummomarx said:

Doozergirl said:

b) he'd need planning permission (and it's likely to be refused on the grounds that it will affect your privacy. 

Well, there's no window on that wall, so that's not an issue.

Privacy off the garden.

TELLIT01

If there are houses backing on to yours I would expect them to be even more vocal in complaining about loss of privacy.

Gummomarx

I don't believe there's a privacy issue -  my two-storey extension has no windows on his side - the same is the case for the neighbour on his other side.

Doozergirl

Gummomarx said:

I don't believe there's a privacy issue -  my two-storey extension has no windows on his side - the same is the case for the neighbour on his other side.

It's been said twice now.  The nearest part of your garden (at least) is also entitled to privacy.  Your neighbour sat watching over your head whilst you're sunbathing in a place that would normally be hidden is not acceptable to planners.   Sitting on a balcony is not treated the same as standing by a window by the planners, because the behaviour of a person at one or the other is totally different.  
different.  

I was never talking about windows because it is very unusual to have clear windows directly onto your neighbours' land, because privacy.  It isn't allowed either. 

452

Doozergirl said:

Gummomarx said:

Doozergirl said:

b) he'd need planning permission (and it's likely to be refused on the grounds that it will affect your privacy. 

Well, there's no window on that wall, so that's not an issue.

You've only seen elevations, so you have no idea whether there's a window or not, but I was neither assuming nor commenting on that.  

It affects their privacy in the nearest part of their back garden as it is though to be overlooked to a greater degree than just a window. 

It would be a straightforward refusal where I live.  

I think they may have seen the building given they live in it. 

Gummomarx

Doozergirl said:

It's been said twice now.  The nearest part of your garden (at least) is also entitled to privacy.  Your neighbour sat watching over your head whilst you're sunbathing in a place that would normally be hidden is not acceptable to planners.   Sitting on a balcony is not treated the same as standing by a window by the planners, because the behaviour of a person at one or the other is totally different.  
different.  

I was never talking about windows because it is very unusual to have clear windows directly onto your neighbours' land, because privacy.  It isn't allowed either. 

I'm in no. 23 with the double extension - my neighbour's extension is only single-storey - it's not possible for him, even after his proposed balcony, to intrude on our privacy.

Doozergirl

452 said:

Doozergirl said:

Gummomarx said:

Doozergirl said:

b) he'd need planning permission (and it's likely to be refused on the grounds that it will affect your privacy. 

Well, there's no window on that wall, so that's not an issue.

You've only seen elevations, so you have no idea whether there's a window or not, but I was neither assuming nor commenting on that.  

It affects their privacy in the nearest part of their back garden as it is though to be overlooked to a greater degree than just a window. 

It would be a straightforward refusal where I live.  

I think they may have seen the building given they live in it. 

Ohhh, okay.   The OP has no back garden and the terraced house that appears to be attached to number 25 is a figment of my imagination.  

My bad.    The planning application will sail through.