Neighbour planning issue
Discussion
I have a potential issue with a neighbour with regards to a small single storey extension to a property I am renovating to live in.
This is the existing floor plan - basically previous owners (many years ago) knocked through a front room and back room and made it into a long garage/boiler room and I'd like to turn it back into rooms with a matching (to other side of the house) bay window to the front - no issues with all that.
This is the basic floor plan (bay window will go at the bottom of the drawing where the garage doors are):
This is how it looks on the other end (out to the garden), near the existing boiler room.
The red is where I'd like to extend it out to to make it sit flush with the rest of the building. The roof totally needs replacing anyway and the floors need a damp proof membrane and to be raised - which further adds to the need for a higher-pitch roof.
The yellow is the neighbour's extension:
The neighbours complaint is that if I take the roof any higher than it is (which I need to as the head height is too low as it is), he will 'see all brick'.
This is the view from his garden/courtyard (his house is at an angle so his garden/courtyard looks directly at my property) - the green is the current view of the existing part of my building in question and the white building is the rest of my property.
The planner says she would not support the planning application if the roof pitch is significantly higher as distance between windowed elevations and opposing flank walls is already less than the minimum 12.5m and this would make it worse.
My main points are that:
1. The neighbours house is on a corner plot and his garden/courtyard faces my garden/rear of my property.
2. He built his extension (I don't know when) which made it closer to my property (thus reducing the distance between flank walls).
3. Due the nature / orientation of his property and size of garden, he doesn't see much except my property anyway!
4. If I can't increase the roof height/pitch, I cannot renovate as the floor heights need to be increased to accommodate the damp proof membrane, etc.
Thoughts/opinion please?
This is the existing floor plan - basically previous owners (many years ago) knocked through a front room and back room and made it into a long garage/boiler room and I'd like to turn it back into rooms with a matching (to other side of the house) bay window to the front - no issues with all that.
This is the basic floor plan (bay window will go at the bottom of the drawing where the garage doors are):
This is how it looks on the other end (out to the garden), near the existing boiler room.
The red is where I'd like to extend it out to to make it sit flush with the rest of the building. The roof totally needs replacing anyway and the floors need a damp proof membrane and to be raised - which further adds to the need for a higher-pitch roof.
The yellow is the neighbour's extension:
The neighbours complaint is that if I take the roof any higher than it is (which I need to as the head height is too low as it is), he will 'see all brick'.
This is the view from his garden/courtyard (his house is at an angle so his garden/courtyard looks directly at my property) - the green is the current view of the existing part of my building in question and the white building is the rest of my property.
The planner says she would not support the planning application if the roof pitch is significantly higher as distance between windowed elevations and opposing flank walls is already less than the minimum 12.5m and this would make it worse.
My main points are that:
1. The neighbours house is on a corner plot and his garden/courtyard faces my garden/rear of my property.
2. He built his extension (I don't know when) which made it closer to my property (thus reducing the distance between flank walls).
3. Due the nature / orientation of his property and size of garden, he doesn't see much except my property anyway!
4. If I can't increase the roof height/pitch, I cannot renovate as the floor heights need to be increased to accommodate the damp proof membrane, etc.
Thoughts/opinion please?
Edited by RockyBalboa on Wednesday 1st April 01:09
Edited by RockyBalboa on Wednesday 1st April 01:10
From my perspective - the proposal was to have a pitched roof with velux windows for light.. can I achieve the same with a flat roof? Secondly, will it potentially have further issues with the elements (rain?).
From the neighbour's perspective - a flat roof would mean he would see a larger height wall across the length of the whole thing as opposed to some of a pitched roof (i.e. starting with seeing a lot and sloping down).
From the neighbour's perspective - a flat roof would mean he would see a larger height wall across the length of the whole thing as opposed to some of a pitched roof (i.e. starting with seeing a lot and sloping down).
Well this extension is part of the plan so I am not sure how permitted development works - if I have put in for planning permission (and it is not yet approved or refused), do my permitted development rights cease?
The place was previously used as some sort of mixed (residential/offices) many years ago and this conversion would bring it back to full residential use.
The place was previously used as some sort of mixed (residential/offices) many years ago and this conversion would bring it back to full residential use.
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