Objecting to planning app re loss of privacy
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Gents,
Anyone know much about this..
The company opposite my house have applied for planning for 7 flats over 3 stories plus a roof terrace.
Currently it is a boatyard.
This would decimate my privacy and frankly I feel a bit sick about it.
It will affect about 5 houses in the same way so obviously Will be speaking to them also.
Does anyone know how seriously loss of privacy is viewed by planners?
Anyone know much about this..
The company opposite my house have applied for planning for 7 flats over 3 stories plus a roof terrace.
Currently it is a boatyard.
This would decimate my privacy and frankly I feel a bit sick about it.
It will affect about 5 houses in the same way so obviously Will be speaking to them also.
Does anyone know how seriously loss of privacy is viewed by planners?
CraigVmax said:
Gents,
Anyone know much about this..
The company opposite my house have applied for planning for 7 flats over 3 stories plus a roof terrace.
Currently it is a boatyard.
This would decimate my privacy and frankly I feel a bit sick about it.
It will affect about 5 houses in the same way so obviously Will be speaking to them also.
Does anyone know how seriously loss of privacy is viewed by planners?
What would the flats overlook - apart from the front of your house? That alone - IME - would not be considered as a significant loss of privacy. Might ruin your view, but that's also quite low on the planners' priorities.Anyone know much about this..
The company opposite my house have applied for planning for 7 flats over 3 stories plus a roof terrace.
Currently it is a boatyard.
This would decimate my privacy and frankly I feel a bit sick about it.
It will affect about 5 houses in the same way so obviously Will be speaking to them also.
Does anyone know how seriously loss of privacy is viewed by planners?
Decimate? Loss of privacy from 100% to 90%? Hardly anything then.
If they're proposing a three storey development, make sure that the Planning Dept. fully consider the Planning Sunlight & Daylight implications.
If that fails, you might still have a chance if your Right of Light is significantly affected but you might need to spend some money with a Specialist RoL Surveyor who can analyse the proposals and assess the potential loss of light that your property may suffer.
If that fails, you might still have a chance if your Right of Light is significantly affected but you might need to spend some money with a Specialist RoL Surveyor who can analyse the proposals and assess the potential loss of light that your property may suffer.
Your local authority may have a booklet demonstrating the 45-degree rule which applies to the overshadowing of windows of habitable rooms in your house by the proposed new development. This has all changed recently, and I'm not sure if the 45-degree rule has ever been anything more than a guideline. But the underlying principle will still be the same. Here's an example of some Plain English documentation: http://www.stirling.gov.uk/dan_daylight.pdf
However, unless your street is VERY narrow, I don't think the 45 degree rule might help.
Be aware that saying to a planner "we don't want other people being able to look into our rooms from their rooms" is going to be a VERY weak argument. For all sorts of reasons.
More likely to succeed are:
However, unless your street is VERY narrow, I don't think the 45 degree rule might help.
Be aware that saying to a planner "we don't want other people being able to look into our rooms from their rooms" is going to be a VERY weak argument. For all sorts of reasons.
More likely to succeed are:
- not in keeping with the area (the same dort of objection that stops big detached houses being built in roads full of '60s bungalows)
- no need (perhaps because of a surplus of flats already available in the area)
- traffic/parking/etc inadequacy
Edited by 5705 on Sunday 18th September 10:54
CraigVmax said:
It's across the river so not sure if the degree rule would hold up although at 3 stories high it would certainly block sunlight during the day.
It's a tricky one, might have to get a solicitor on board
It's across a river! How far away? I'm struggling to see how the 25-degree guideline could be passed but that somehow the sun could no longer shine into the relevant rooms. Any chance you want to provide a URL to Google Street View/etc?It's a tricky one, might have to get a solicitor on board
A solicitor will happily take your money regardless of the merit of your objection, of course.
If you have the cash, may be worth hiring a planning consultant to assess and plan the objections for you.
Or there's this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Stop-Influence-Plannin...
I have the ones by the same author for finding plots and getting PP.
Or there's this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Stop-Influence-Plannin...
I have the ones by the same author for finding plots and getting PP.
There are several approaches to effective planning objections.
When in property development I ran 25 planning appeals won every one. It was fun. But I only appealed the winnable cases because in many others although I did not like the decision, the planners were acting within the law.
The planning process is essentially bureaucracy at its best (or worst).
Do not seek fairness, equity or justice. Seek refusal by any means.
The best grounds are nuisance, noise and disturbance, non conforming use, Highways objection, inadequate visibility splays and any other statutory (within the statute requirements) objection.
If you want help PM me with the SPECIFIC details in as full a form as possible.
Good Luck
When in property development I ran 25 planning appeals won every one. It was fun. But I only appealed the winnable cases because in many others although I did not like the decision, the planners were acting within the law.
The planning process is essentially bureaucracy at its best (or worst).
Do not seek fairness, equity or justice. Seek refusal by any means.
The best grounds are nuisance, noise and disturbance, non conforming use, Highways objection, inadequate visibility splays and any other statutory (within the statute requirements) objection.
If you want help PM me with the SPECIFIC details in as full a form as possible.
Good Luck
BBYeah said:
If you have the cash, may be worth hiring a planning consultant to assess and plan the objections for you.
Or there's this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Stop-Influence-Plannin...
I have the ones by the same author for finding plots and getting PP.
I have the same 2 books - they're pretty good, although I've not seen the one 'batting for the other team.'Or there's this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Stop-Influence-Plannin...
I have the ones by the same author for finding plots and getting PP.
We live in a quiet country lane with about 10 houses in total on it.
A small farm near the end of the lane was chosen as suitable for affordable housing, on the foot print of the now redundant farm buildings.
Everyone in the lane objected. The site nor the roads were suitable for the development and 'experts' were engaged to resist.
The Parish Council were, however, keen that it should go there - and not anywhere near where any of the Councillors lived.
Despite proving that the site was 'wrong' for the development, permission was granted.
You may have everything right in objecting to a proposal but, if the local Council want it to go there, that's where it'll be.
Hope you make some progress with this.
A small farm near the end of the lane was chosen as suitable for affordable housing, on the foot print of the now redundant farm buildings.
Everyone in the lane objected. The site nor the roads were suitable for the development and 'experts' were engaged to resist.
The Parish Council were, however, keen that it should go there - and not anywhere near where any of the Councillors lived.
Despite proving that the site was 'wrong' for the development, permission was granted.
You may have everything right in objecting to a proposal but, if the local Council want it to go there, that's where it'll be.
Hope you make some progress with this.
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