Neighbour applied for planning permission using our details

jadex

Doozergirl said:

why have they even used a land registry number?  It's not relevant.  

On application form there is a question asking about it:
Title number(s) Please add the title number(s) for the existing building(s) on the site. If the site has no title numbers, please enter "Unregistered"

jadex

user1977 said:

jadex said:

babyblade41 said:

what does it say on the council planning portal .. it would normally have a site plan . 

I just wonder if it is deliberate move to deny us a chance to object?

More likely just to be a c0ck-up, I would have thought. 

I hope so

thegreenone

On the plans, are there details for an architect or agent?  If you cannot get through to the council, perhaps try them.

Send emails to all, perhaps backing up with a scan of a CT Bill showing that you live there.

Ramouth

I’m another who thinks it’s a mistake made by the person drafting the drawings.  Architects have terrible handwriting in their own notebooks!

Doozergirl

jadex said:

babyblade41 said:

what does it say on the council planning portal .. it would normally have a site plan . 

yes there is a site plan, and drawings etc and all of them are showing correctly his house but all of them are titled with our address;

I just wonder if it is deliberate move to deny us a chance to object? New owner is not living in there so cannot speak to him

It's the architect making a mistake, purchasing the wrong online plans and applying with the wrong door number.  

Not being funny, but your objection won't mean very much, certainly not worth going  to the effort to applying for planning on the wrong house and screwing up an entire application over.  Planning rules is planning rules and you can't change them.  The officer will have seen it all before, it's unlikely you're going to point out anything fundamental. 

People make mistakes.  It's generally better to assume that those mistakes have nothing to do with getting at you.  You won't have even crossed their minds.  

You don't want the officer to withdraw the application, you just want the door number amended, as does everyone else. 

If you can't speak to the planning officer now, contact whoever is listed as the 'agent' ie. The architect.  

sammyjammy

So what are the plans for?  Would you want to object if it related to his house?  If it were approved it would still relate to your house objection or not.

Must just be an error, I would save myself the bother of the planning office and just speak to neighbour

Section62

jadex said:

Council has validated his case (how so?) and according to planning portal he is a neighbour to development so he can comment / object whilst we won't get notified at all (as we are "applicant"...).

Validation only involves checking the correct documents have been submitted, and the address/location is one in that authority's area.  They don't check that the name of the applicant is the owner/occupier of the property (because you don't need to be to make an application for consent)

Has the street notice gone up yet?  This is the other way that people in the local area would be notified of the application and the opportunity to comment.

Worth noting that the owner/occupier of a site for which an application has been made is not prevented from submitting comments/objections.

If the application has been made in your name then I would be concerned about what is going on, but like others I'd suggest this is just a muck up.

A family member recently had a large development application made near their home - except the agent used the postcode for another location about as far away in the local planning area as it is possible to get. The application was registered using that wrong postcode, meaning that neither postcode nor map searches on the council's website worked.  Because applicants are now often asked to put up the street notice (rather than someone from the planning office doing it) the postcode error was not noticed.  In comparison to this, entering "6" rather than "8" is a trivial error to have slipped through.

Thrugelmir

Surely going round and having a chat with the next door neighbour would have resolved this in less than 2 minutes. 

user1977

Thrugelmir said:

Surely going round and having a chat with the next door neighbour would have resolved this in less than 2 minutes. 

OP has said the neighbour hasn't moved in (yet).

jadex

Section62 said:

jadex said:

Council has validated his case (how so?) and according to planning portal he is a neighbour to development so he can comment / object whilst we won't get notified at all (as we are "applicant"...).

In comparison to this, entering "6" rather than "8" is a trivial error to have slipped through.

if was not just a 6 and 8 mixed up, on application form there is our property title number (his is completely different - checked it out on Nimbus map) - surely when you apply for planning permission and being asked to provide title number you go and fetch your own deeds and put your own numbers into relevant box - that's what made me curious if it is a f..k up or something else;

for the rest - point taken