Building plans do they have to stick to the ones made public
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We have some building work going on opposite us and we were invited to the public consultation before work commenced.
The plans were agreed and everything was peachy, but now the builders have totally ignored the published plans and are building something quite different to said plans ie houses in front of my house. On the front facing road when the plans state differently.
These plans are on the notice board on site and still on the gov website as current and accurate.
Can they do this? This is part council and part private housing and only the council homes are being developed at the moment.
I hope that makes some sense at least.
The plans were agreed and everything was peachy, but now the builders have totally ignored the published plans and are building something quite different to said plans ie houses in front of my house. On the front facing road when the plans state differently.
These plans are on the notice board on site and still on the gov website as current and accurate.
Can they do this? This is part council and part private housing and only the council homes are being developed at the moment.
I hope that makes some sense at least.
Plotloss said:
They have permission to build what was submitted to planning and nothing else.
Obviously there can be some minor deviations with permitted works rulings but if its substantial perhaps raise it.
Thank you for your reply, I did email the council today but I needed some clarification on the matter. And with regards to minor changes these are not minor they are massive, the whole site is different to the plans.Obviously there can be some minor deviations with permitted works rulings but if its substantial perhaps raise it.
Thanks again for your reply.
Si 330 said:
It's not unusual to submitted changes or do it retrospectively.
Indeed. Do it like our neighbours did - get your plans turned down twice, then get a trick architect who will rejig them enough to get them through, then build what you wanted originally, apply for retrospective PP and hey presto 
They do have to stick to the plans. A hotel was planned in my home town and I objected originally to just 15 parking spaces.... They then proceeded to build with zero parking spaces. When I saw this, I contacted the council and they put the site on hold and made them change it.... Contact your council now and things can happen..
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WorAl said:
Si 330 said:
It's not unusual to submitted changes or do it retrospectively.
This ^ and they will generally get away with it because the structures are already there, so why pull them down? And that'll be it, OP will unfortunately be stuck with whatever montrosity the developer decided to build.
davido140 said:
WorAl said:
Si 330 said:
It's not unusual to submitted changes or do it retrospectively.
This ^ and they will generally get away with it because the structures are already there, so why pull them down? And that'll be it, OP will unfortunately be stuck with whatever montrosity the developer decided to build.
WorAl said:
davido140 said:
WorAl said:
Si 330 said:
It's not unusual to submitted changes or do it retrospectively.
This ^ and they will generally get away with it because the structures are already there, so why pull them down? And that'll be it, OP will unfortunately be stuck with whatever montrosity the developer decided to build.
A local developer here "accidentally" knocked down a listed building, to replace it with houses. few grand fine, job jobbed.
Hear of that happening all the time. Someone around here bought a listed building and applied to make it into a house, planning was refused. A few months later some "vandals" set it on fire and it had to be pulled down. He didn't even get fined, he got the insurance money and was able to build his house.
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