Please help - neighbour issue

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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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

JaniceBattersby has it spot on.

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