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Please help - neighbour issue

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12345zz · 18/08/2019 13:08

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if you could give me some advice. A resident on my street has submitted a planning application to build a large extension on their home that is particularly ugly.

I would like to object via the council's website and am required to give my name and address. I understand from the website that personal details will be redacted when my comment is reproduced as part of the planning report.

However, I'm concerned that the neighbour who has submitted the application will be able to see that it's me who has commented. Will my name and address be available for them to see or is it viewed by the planning officers only?

Any advice you could give would be very gratefully received.

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bluetue · 19/08/2019 02:33

If it already has five objections raising the same points as you will make then don't bother objecting. It's not about quantity

I am a planning officer

GPatz · 18/08/2019 23:33

JaniceBattersby has it spot on.

12345zz · 18/08/2019 23:32

If yous doesn’t - the applicant doesn’t have access to any more details than are published online.

@TatianaLarina I will call the council tomorrow to double check, but thank you for putting my mind at rest!

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JaniceBattersby · 18/08/2019 23:18

Even if the objector’s details are not published online (though most councils do) they are public documents and should be open for inspection by anyone who wants to see them or request them via email. It is in the public interest to have an open and transparent planning system.

If you were putting up an extension and your neighbours got all their relatives in Aberdeen to object then it is only right and proper that you, and the planning committee, should be able to see exactly who’s objected so that you can choose what weighting to give to their objections.

FWIW every one of our nine neighbours objected to our extension plans. It got through planning. One of the objectors did our brickwork in the end. We’ve not fallen out with any of them because their objections were legitimate, measured and based on accepted planning law. They had every right to object.

Poppiesway1 · 18/08/2019 23:08

I recently objected over land next to my house being built on. Not only was my name, address and email displayed, I also had builders who wanted to buy the land (after the plans were rejected) kept coming to my house and emailing me, pestering me to sell my property to them it wasn’t pleasant and I was fuming that they could were given all that info from the council.

TatianaLarina · 18/08/2019 22:53

I think what other posters are saying is that their councils publish the objectors’s details. So some councils do some don’t.

If yous doesn’t - the applicant doesn’t have access to any more details than are published online.

If you’re concerned call the council planning dept directly.

12345zz · 18/08/2019 22:45

If the council doesn’t show it, that is all the applicant will see. The applicant does not have any more information than is displayed on the site.

Are you absolutely sure of that @TatianaLarina? Sorry to ask - it’s just that others have said different on this thread. I really hope you are right!

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Rachelover40 · 18/08/2019 22:40

Don't object, then you won't have to worry about your neighbour finding out. If you genuinely object to something with good reasons that you can articulate well, why be afraid to say it.

As this is worrying so much, in your shoes I would leave it to others to do the objecting.

TatianaLarina · 18/08/2019 22:32

I’m just wondering whether because my council don’t seem to show the name and address online, whether they don’t show it to the applicant either... or whether the applicant does get to see this extra information.

If the council doesn’t show it, that is all the applicant will see. The applicant does not have any more information than is displayed on the site.

Mummyoflittledragon · 18/08/2019 22:17

If it really is ugly, the people building the extension don’t seem to care about the impact to you. Our ndn objected. We didn’t have an issue with them doing this. It was rejected. She stopped talking to us and we went ahead. She was jealous. It doesn’t sound as if you are acting like our neighbour. Do what you need to do.

EustaciaPieface · 18/08/2019 22:11

I objected to a place of worship opening in my building last year, I used grounds like noise and nuisance due to parking etc. My full name was available online, part of my address too and I was quoted in the local press alongside other objectors (it was a controversial project). It was very public and I felt uncomfortable even though it was a faceless organisation that I was objecting to. Thankfully they didn’t get the go ahead.

Millie2017 · 18/08/2019 22:04

I might add we didn’t mind her objection, we just found it funny she hadn’t even read the application properly. We are still friends.

12345zz · 18/08/2019 22:04

Just have the courage of your convictions OP. So if names and addressed are not anonymous, are you still going to object?

I want to - but generally speaking I’m a very anxious person and am concerned about upsetting or falling out with neighbours.

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PinkiOcelot · 18/08/2019 22:01

Just have the courage of your convictions OP.
So if names and addressed are not anonymous, are you still going to object?

Millie2017 · 18/08/2019 22:01

@12345zz online they were anonymous. We were given a report with full name and addresses.

12345zz · 18/08/2019 22:01

LPA's shouldn't be accepting anoymous objections.

Fair enough but does the applicant really need to know your exact name and address? Surely the council can receive this information to verify you’re genuine - but not share it with another party?

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GPatz · 18/08/2019 21:55

LPA's shouldn't be accepting anoymous objections.

NoSquirrels · 18/08/2019 21:54

I don’t want them to know it’s me objecting because I don’t want to forever sour relations with my neighbour.

Obviously no idea what your neighbour is like or what the plans proposed are, but in general if your objection is well thought through and reasonable, there shouldn’t be a problem sticking up for your opinion.

Realistically your neighbour will think it’s you anyway- you’d expect close neighbours to have an opinion.

boredboredboredboredbored · 18/08/2019 21:54

I told my ndn directly i was objecting to theirs. Why the need for secrecy? Mine breached the 45 degree rule by meters but was passed as the added glass to it.

12345zz · 18/08/2019 21:53

I’m not a NIMBY - I wouldn’t want this development in anyone’s back yard (my own included)...

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CleverLoginName · 18/08/2019 21:49

NIMBY alert

12345zz · 18/08/2019 21:49

I don’t want them to know it’s me objecting because I don’t want to forever sour relations with my neighbour.

Thanks Olap - I will give them a call tomorrow.

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0lapislazuli · 18/08/2019 21:46

Ring your council. Some allow comments to be anonymous.

NoSquirrels · 18/08/2019 21:39

Why don’t you want them to know you object?

12345zz · 18/08/2019 21:39

Thanks @PapaShango. So the applicant can respond individually to everyone who’s objected then basically?

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