We moved into our dream home last October. We didn't see anything of one of our neighbours until relatively recently but were reassured when then introduced themselves that they were very friendly. The problems began around 6 weeks ago when they started to remove their existing conservatory and build a huge extension. It covers the full length of their semi- detached house and is around 3.7m in height.
The issue is that the side wall which has just gone up of comes within 70cm of our shared boundary with the 3.7m high wall and the fact it extends around 6m out from the rear of the house casting a shadow over our living room window.
We received no notification of the extension from the neighbour, the previous owner or our solicitor. Nothing at all. They obtained planning permission for the development in 2015. The previous owner (a dear old lady) mentioned they had shown her plans but assured here the new extension would be no higher than the old conservatory - it is and is significantly higher.
Now that we have inspected the plans there is no indication of the height of the construction other than mention of a 2m high window going along the back of the extension.
We are contacting planning tomorrow. Does anyone have any idea if we have any legal grounds to complain, have the extension reduced in a size a little? It clearly says on the land that all planning is subject to neighbour consultation - we had nothing but are worried that the previous owner who had long since left before the building started may have been cajoled into giving consent in some way.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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Upnorth123 · 28/03/2017 00:21
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