Selfish developers / Neighbours

[wseed]

I've just seen on yahoo an article where a developer/neighbour has built an extension right up to the house next door. I've seen on here where people have posted asking advice where similar extension have been done. Is this due to the relaxed rules on permitted development? It appears in this case that planning permission was required and subsequently applied for and granted. I'd be devastated if a neighbour built right up to my home, I feel for the couple.

[Munter]

I think there are more building control questions than planning ones...

[Hackney]

It's horrible. I can't understand the point of doing it, not only affects the neighbour's house but who would buy the house with the extension like that.
What's a surveyor going to say when he sees the guttering on the roof.

Sad state of affairs when someone feels they can build without approval and also build something that hasn't been approved.

[226bhp]

Council probably scared of being called racist init.

[Fittster]

House with extension owned by: Mohammed Nazir
Birmingham director of planning: Waheed Nazir

hmmmm.

[Shilvers]

Fittster said:

House with extension owned by: Mohammed Nazir
Birmingham director of planning: Waheed Nazir

hmmmm.

No relation. 100% fact.

[BlackLabel]

I don't know if this is true but I was once told that if you want to build an extension which you know you won't get planning permission for then just apply for planning permission for a more moderate, smaller extension and then build the bigger one anyway and more often than not you'll get away with it.

This quite literally was 'pub talk' so not sure if it was bks or not. It can't be true can it?

[Ruttager]

wow, the comments on that article are eye opening.

[Wozy68]

Shilvers said:

Fittster said:

House with extension owned by: Mohammed Nazir
Birmingham director of planning: Waheed Nazir

hmmmm.

No relation. 100% fact.

Fact or not, your being naive if you think there is no 'connection'.

This is absolutly shocking, I'm dumbfounded that this extention would be allowed to stand.
It's a sorrowful state of how corruption within local Councils, planning departments etc, how certain groups within our society behave and ignore or play the system, and it seems to be getting worse.

[PurpleTurtle]

Shilvers said:

Fittster said:

House with extension owned by: Mohammed Nazir
Birmingham director of planning: Waheed Nazir

hmmmm.

No relation. 100% fact.

I work with a lot of Indians. They all have a lot of "cousins".

Except they aren't their aunts and uncle's children. That's how it is.

[Shilvers]

Wozy68 said:

Shilvers said:

Fittster said:

House with extension owned by: Mohammed Nazir
Birmingham director of planning: Waheed Nazir

hmmmm.

No relation. 100% fact.

Fact or not, your being naive if you think there is no 'connection'.

This is absolutly shocking, I'm dumbfounded that this extention would be allowed to stand.
It's a sorrowful state of how corruption within local Councils, planning departments etc, how certain groups within our society behave and ignore or play the system, and it seems to be getting worse.

Am I now? I must be since you have the situation all figured out

[Pickled Piper]

This is Birmingham you are talking about. Home of the Trojan Horse Schools. No one believed that that a group of people could infiltrate and start running a group of State Schools, when that news first broke.

[WinstonWolf]

Shilvers said:

Wozy68 said:

Shilvers said:

Fittster said:

House with extension owned by: Mohammed Nazir
Birmingham director of planning: Waheed Nazir

hmmmm.

No relation. 100% fact.

Fact or not, your being naive if you think there is no 'connection'.

This is absolutly shocking, I'm dumbfounded that this extention would be allowed to stand.
It's a sorrowful state of how corruption within local Councils, planning departments etc, how certain groups within our society behave and ignore or play the system, and it seems to be getting worse.

Am I now? I must be since you have the situation all figured out

There must be some reason why the council allowed regulations to be ridden over roughshod...

[Shilvers]

PurpleTurtle said:

Shilvers said:

Fittster said:

House with extension owned by: Mohammed Nazir
Birmingham director of planning: Waheed Nazir

hmmmm.

No relation. 100% fact.

I work with a lot of Indians. They all have a lot of "cousins".

Except they aren't their aunts and uncle's children. That's how it is.

No doubt, but as I said above, no relation.

[Mr GrimNasty]

On some of the shots, the standard of build is shocking, the top floor is not directly above the bottom - it bows right out, by quite some margin!

[Shilvers]

WinstonWolf said:

There must be some reason why the council allowed regulations to be ridden over roughshod...

They haven't.

I have all the information you could possible need to explain this story from start to finish. With the world being such a small place though, that won't happen on a public forum.

I shall watch from afar....

[JQ]

Devil's advocate - but why is it ok for one house to be built within mm of the boundary line and not the other? If you want space around your house, buy one that sits in the middle of your plot of land.

However, I agree the extension is terrible and I'd be absolutely gutted if I lived next door to it.

[dickymint]

stty build but I see absolutely no reason why it shouldn't be done.

[LeoSayer]

BlackLabel said:

I don't know if this is true but I was once told that if you want to build an extension which you know you won't get planning permission for then just apply for planning permission for a more moderate, smaller extension and then build the bigger one anyway and more often than not you'll get away with it.

This quite literally was 'pub talk' so not sure if it was bks or not. It can't be true can it?

Not according to my architect.

He's got a client who is in a pain with the local planning department and neighbours by doing just this.

[Sheepshanks]

PurpleTurtle said:

Shilvers said:

Fittster said:

House with extension owned by: Mohammed Nazir
Birmingham director of planning: Waheed Nazir

hmmmm.

No relation. 100% fact.

I work with a lot of Indians.

Yeah, they'll be from the same tribe.