Planning permission - Are there any planning reasons why this should not be passed? Help please

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We live in a small house with an extremely small back garden. One of our neighbours has built a brick pizza oven right on his bottom fence line away from his house which is about 1metre from our house used on a daily basis which blows out large amounts of smoke which means we cannot even have a window open. He is now applying for retrospective planning permision. Does anyone know if there are planning rules about the proximity of smoke producing brick built structures and their proximity to fencelines and/ or neighbouring properties. Environmental health will be another route but we have already been told by them this is an extremeley difficult route to prove and for them to enforce. Thank you.

Just to clarify the smoke is coming out of about a 6-8 foot chimney

Obviously you need to object to their application, the main reasons seem to be smell and loss of amenity ie use of your garden and ability to open windows. Can you get other neighbors to object?

I’d talk to your local Planning Enforcement Officer, try to get hold of the senior one, they may be able to offer some good advice as to how best to object to the planning application. IME some Planning Enforcement Officers are really helpful, they find retrospective planning applications annoying.

Could you film the smoke to demonstrate how much of a nuisance it is?