PP has been granted for an infill development on our (narrow) street, against the wishes of all the local residents and against the planning policies of the council themselves - the planning officer had to instruct the committee to ignore the parking issue to get it through. It will make parking a hell of a lot more difficult for everyone, as the dropped kerbs + visibility splays for the new houses' driveways take out about a third of the parking available on the road which is currently all full. The houses on this street are period properties, narrow terraces (each house width less than the length of one car + manouvering space, and several houses have 2 cars) with no frontage so the only parking is on the road (and you have to park half on the kerb on both sides of the street). We suggested an alternative entrance to the development which would solve issues, to no avail.
Builder has just knocked on our door and asked DH to move his car as it's in front of the piece of fence/wall they've removed to access the site and they want to get another piece of machinery onsite. DH was about to get in the bath with DC (day off work today) so has had to get dressed and go out to move it. If it'd been a couple of hours later they'd have been out of luck - we're going out, in my car.
Builder was polite enough, but I can see this sort of thing coming up lots over the coming months. There were already pointed words exchanged between another resident and the builders when one of their lorries blocked the street a couple of days ago.
Do we HAVE to move? If so in what time frame? If they're blocking the street do we have any recourse?
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ExAstris · 19/02/2016 08:36
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