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Our neighbours applied for planning permission last year and public consultation took place in October, we looked at the plans and although thought they seemed big, were reassured that all legal code would be verified by the application officer. They just showed the applicants house and nothing to indicate our property.
we did not make comment as we did not object to the planning application on theory due to the checks carried out by the council.
work started in March and has been slow going but about a week ago we decided to have another look at the plans as they didn’t seem to match what we had seen. Instead we found that new plans, submitted 2 days before approval, had a visualisation of an extension at the back of our house which doesn’t exist. In the approval recommendation report, the planning officer gives an specific depth (which doesn’t exist) and uses this as a mitigating factor for the 45 degree rule.
The plans also fail to shown the ground height difference between our houses - we are on a hill and the ground level difference is visible from the front on the house, about a foot at the boundary.
Also the block plan for the site , does not include the outline of our house at all; I should note the applicants are other house in our semi detached.
the planning office did not perform site check due to COVID and said the applicant provided and picture and she used google earth to check (?!)
We had no problem with the extension in theory but now we feel that misrepresented information was both submitted knowingly and then accepted without question.
we do have a structure (deck with lean to transparent roof) but this, by the planning offices own documents, would not have been considered due to its nature and structure. More than that the measurements on approval recommendation report in no way reflect it’s actual size.
We are trying to follow every complaint, we’ve approached building regs as aside from the above they have broken 2 out of 3 of their planning conditions and because of safety concerns surround the ground height difference. The council are trying to negate their responsibility, even though specific measurements and descriptions are included in the permission that doesn’t exist.
we just don’t know how we can go from here and what effect such misrepresentation might have for our own future planning applications.
we did not make comment as we did not object to the planning application on theory due to the checks carried out by the council.
work started in March and has been slow going but about a week ago we decided to have another look at the plans as they didn’t seem to match what we had seen. Instead we found that new plans, submitted 2 days before approval, had a visualisation of an extension at the back of our house which doesn’t exist. In the approval recommendation report, the planning officer gives an specific depth (which doesn’t exist) and uses this as a mitigating factor for the 45 degree rule.
The plans also fail to shown the ground height difference between our houses - we are on a hill and the ground level difference is visible from the front on the house, about a foot at the boundary.
Also the block plan for the site , does not include the outline of our house at all; I should note the applicants are other house in our semi detached.
the planning office did not perform site check due to COVID and said the applicant provided and picture and she used google earth to check (?!)
We had no problem with the extension in theory but now we feel that misrepresented information was both submitted knowingly and then accepted without question.
we do have a structure (deck with lean to transparent roof) but this, by the planning offices own documents, would not have been considered due to its nature and structure. More than that the measurements on approval recommendation report in no way reflect it’s actual size.
We are trying to follow every complaint, we’ve approached building regs as aside from the above they have broken 2 out of 3 of their planning conditions and because of safety concerns surround the ground height difference. The council are trying to negate their responsibility, even though specific measurements and descriptions are included in the permission that doesn’t exist.
we just don’t know how we can go from here and what effect such misrepresentation might have for our own future planning applications.
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