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We live in the last house on the right at the end of a cul de sac with other neighbours (4 others) down the road same side as us. Our road is quite thin, parked cars kerbside only allow for a cars width to pass. The road is only accessed by recycling trucks reversing backwards.
A guy turned up at our door today and gave my wife two pieces of paper which regards the empty piece of land over the road the other side of a wooden fence opposite ours and the other people in our road.
This piece of land was originally a petrol station around over 15 years ago but it ended because in suffered a massive fuel leak from the underground tanks and it contaminated that plot of land.
The owners of the plot have over the years had the odd few company's try to sell used cars but they have been and gone and nobody because of the previous contamination has been able to build on it.
Enter the guy with the two pieces of paper (not exactly hi tech) explaining that they would like ours and our neighbours views on what they propose. From our point of view if this has to go ahead in the name of progress and capitalism we would probably prefer the flats as from a noise point of view it would encroach less on our overlooking bedroom windows opposite and not the 2 storey houses with the gardens.
We would prefer access by cars to be from the main road at the front rather than turning into our cul de sac road which is only a cars width wide.
What are the aspects if any that would be worth challenging regarding the actual application itself, whether we have a choice of which applications will go ahead, and the problem regarding access to whatever application is successful if any, also regarding past contamination and is there a time limit on that that expires?
Your thoughts please?
Thankyou.
A guy turned up at our door today and gave my wife two pieces of paper which regards the empty piece of land over the road the other side of a wooden fence opposite ours and the other people in our road.
This piece of land was originally a petrol station around over 15 years ago but it ended because in suffered a massive fuel leak from the underground tanks and it contaminated that plot of land.
The owners of the plot have over the years had the odd few company's try to sell used cars but they have been and gone and nobody because of the previous contamination has been able to build on it.
Enter the guy with the two pieces of paper (not exactly hi tech) explaining that they would like ours and our neighbours views on what they propose. From our point of view if this has to go ahead in the name of progress and capitalism we would probably prefer the flats as from a noise point of view it would encroach less on our overlooking bedroom windows opposite and not the 2 storey houses with the gardens.
We would prefer access by cars to be from the main road at the front rather than turning into our cul de sac road which is only a cars width wide.
What are the aspects if any that would be worth challenging regarding the actual application itself, whether we have a choice of which applications will go ahead, and the problem regarding access to whatever application is successful if any, also regarding past contamination and is there a time limit on that that expires?
Your thoughts please?
Thankyou.
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