Reply to: Bloody planning permission!

[psychocandy]

Now I'm all for people having an opinion but I see the planning system as a bit of flawed system. It opens itself up to all sorts of abuse surely for people with nothing better to do with their lives.

Why not just have planning laws that are black and white? If you want to do something, then as long as its legal, why does it matter what the neighbours think?

[xoggoth]

Never, ever, comment on a planning application. I wrote in support of a footpath diversion around a local farmhouse and have been getting umpteen page documents through my letter box practically every week since.

[vetran]

MrsBP does not let me near the neighbours. JUst in case.

That's because you would shag them not rip up their lawn.

[psychocandy]

It doesn't matter if it's one inch, three or a foot - you are encroaching upon somebody else space, not as a one off but as regular occurrence. Your attitude that it doesn't matter is symptomatic of the lack of consideration towards others endemic in this society.
If it was my strip of land you would by now have had your tyres shredded

chavtastic!

[BrilloPad]

Precisely. Good relations with your neighbours is a prize to be cherished and nurtured. Talk to them.

MrsBP does not let me near the neighbours. JUst in case.

[d000hg]

If it was my strip of land you would by now have had your tyres shredded

I think if it was your land, he'd have moved.

[vetran]

It doesn't matter if it's one inch, three or a foot - you are encroaching upon somebody else space, not as a one off but as regular occurrence. Your attitude that it doesn't matter is symptomatic of the lack of consideration towards others endemic in this society.
If it was my strip of land you would by now have had your tyres shredded

Precisely. Good relations with your neighbours is a prize to be cherished and nurtured. Talk to them.

[BrilloPad]

I'm converting my detached garage into an office, I have sufficient parking for 9 cars on my driveway, do you think this will be sufficient?

Not for when you hold the cuk annual party round there.

[Troll]

Lawn no. Patch of mud with weeds on yes. and 3 inches of it at the edge.

It doesn't matter if it's one inch, three or a foot - you are encroaching upon somebody else space, not as a one off but as regular occurrence. Your attitude that it doesn't matter is symptomatic of the lack of consideration towards others endemic in this society.
If it was my strip of land you would by now have had your tyres shredded

[moggy]

Lawn no. Patch of mud with weeds on yes. and 3 inches of it at the edge.

Granted it sounds like nothing, but if you see he has put something there to stop you doing it, then surely if you bring it up and explain and give him an opportunity to say something then it puts it to bed.

Chances are he is going to say no worries anyway, or he would have come out and said something straight away.. why on earth someone would want to live next door to someone and let something that has the potential to fester go unsaid is certainly beyond me.

[ChrisPackit]

if someone's right to light is infringed and/or if the planning officer is a jobsworth that is probably what will happen.

It's a fair point, if I do get a jobsworth - but my mitigating argument would be that we built the garage 300mm lower than the house so, in theory, they would be no worse off then if we had built it as per plans and be a foot shorter.

More shyte I don't need.

[DS23]

...in theory I guess they could make me take the roof off and make it the correct height which would be a nightmare...

if someone's right to light is infringed and/or if the planning officer is a jobsworth that is probably what will happen.

[psychocandy]

all he had to do was ask you not to drive on his lawn?

maybe all you had to do was mention that you'd noticed he had put the planters there to stop you driving over his property and you would be a good neighbour and he wouldn't be complaining about your planning application...

Lawn no. Patch of mud with weeds on yes. and 3 inches of it at the edge.

[ChrisPackit]

er... so you got permission for a 15 foot tall extension but made it 16 feet and you're mad because you have to go through the permissions again? seems fairly logical, reasonable and proper to me. mind you, you'll be *really* mad if you have to take it down.

I'm only mad because of the scrotey neighbours at the back grassing me up to the council! Its not my fault if they used to look over a lushous green pasture and then I bought the land and turned it into CP Towers.

They can't make me take it down as I have PP for a 15' garage, but in theory I guess they could make me take the roof off and make it the correct height which would be a nightmare...

[Scrag Meister]

lift

HTH

There is an Addison Lee taxi depot over between Camden and Euston and they have a load of these lift parking units so they can fit twice as many cars into the same area.

Clever idea.