Behind my house will be a Council development

[JuliaMC]

Hi,
I bought my house 2 years ago in a small town on a Council estate. The house is a terrace house with a very small back garden. When we decided to buy the house the area was very quiet and very well located, had a field with flowers and trees behind the house and a lovely view over the Snowdonia Mountains.
Now we received a letter from a private developer that just behind my back garden on that field it will be a development of a care home with 40 beds, a 75 beds of extra care, a community hub, a new road and a car park for 50 cars. Me and my neighbors went for an open evening and chat with the developer and raised our concerns. In the plans the car park boundaries are literally behind my back garden that is only 4x4 meters. I am concerned that this will affect my privacy, will de evaluate the property, pollution, noise, loosing the view, will affect my family mental health and wellbeing as I have a child with severe ADHD/ASD.
I have sent emails to everyone involved with photos, what else can I do? Can I request a compensation?

A care home and it's associated car park is by far the lesser of the evils that could be built there.

Think long and hard about the alternatives before you start banging the drum about a care home.

Belis- have you ever seen Britain from above? It is mostly green - there is lots of space!!

A car park is quiet and you can’t see it, would you rather the home itself was a few meters from your garden?

The new development is by the center of the town at the edge of a council estate, there is land in other places but very powerful people lives there and they knew that they're not going to be happy.

What do they say - A view is only good if you own it!

What will happen is that they will demolishe a previous care home that is on the side of my house and will do a car park open for everyone and a new one way road

What a nightmare for you OP. Unfortunately, this is a bastard situation and not much you can do. Your rejections will appear in the future for any buyers to see in case it doesn’t go through. Speak to neighbours and ask them to object. Raise the fence and plant very big trees at the end of your garden. They will take a while to grow but it will give you privacy.

Yes, because this is going to be so easy now 🙄

Apart from the fact that care homes are 24 hr operations, came home residents can be noisy, lights will be on and off all night and visitors and ambulances will be there constantly.

I think the best you can do under the circumstances is ask for a buffer zone of trees to filter night time lights and noise and answer lack of privacy.
I sympathise, Snowdonia is an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and I would hate to have had that view and loose it. I don't think people realise how much farmland we are loosing to development - my small semi rural town has doubled in the last 10 years.

It’s such a pain when these things happen to you personally, even when in the grand scheme of things they are needed on a societal level.
I agree with others about planting trees in your garden, and I would ask about the developer putting in a Wildlife Corridor between the back of your houses and the new car park.

This would fit nicely in the ageism thread!!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don't be too sure that the odd spliff or two won't be consumed. Just because you are old, doesn't mean you stop all your pleasures in life! Pluse it's great for pain and joint stiffness.
There may be some wheelchair doughnut competitions on a Saturday night...

She explained in her OP…noise, pollution, losing her view of Snowdonia, the impact on her SEN child, devaluing her house, loss of privacy to name a few.

If it’s going to be developed a care home and Car park is the best option
the house I grew up in had a field with horse in next to it they built a HA estate it’s like something from shameless

I think its lovely that the people in the care home will have such a lovely view.
Sorry op, it might be you one day.

She explained in her OP…noise, pollution, losing her view of Snowdonia, the impact on her SEN child, devaluing her house, loss of privacy to name a few.

Most of those are not valid planning considerations. Loss of privacy could be a planning consideration but a car park adjacent to a garden would not normally be considered a privacy issue. Noise is the same, it can be a planning issue but unlikely in this scenario. Views and house values are not of concern to planning at all.

Parts of the UK, in particular SE England, are over populated and over developed. Nobody is installing the necessary infrastructure and facilities.
There might well be lots of green fields but they are needed for growing food as well as for leisure facilities (country walks) and psychological wellbeing.
Care homes are needed and trump anybody’s “right” to a view

Is it at planning application stage yet or is it a consultation? If the latter you can still influence their plans to try to mitigate the impact such as request additional planting on the boundary, lower height buildings near you etc. They need outline permission before details are finalised in the application At pp stage you can submit an objection but it needs to be worded towards specific grounds ie. Traffic movements, safe access, out of keeping with the area, wildlife and environmental impact etc. You could form a residents group and lobby the local councillor.

I have sympathy op I live in a village where every green space is being built on without thought for infrastructure - sewers already overflow so some residents have waste all over their gardens at times of heavy rain.

Unfortunately losing your view is not a valid planning consideration, a car park would mean you're not overlooked, I'd think noise concern would be valid.

As for suggesting compensation sorry op you're being ridiculous there

Better than a housing development. They’ll be relatively quiet neighbours.

if it has been earmarked for development then development of some sort will happen.

what is really important is that you send in a letter of objection/comment pushing for things that will mitigate against the development for you - screening, location of flues and extractor fans from the kitchen etc.

Given the current housing crisis and lack of facilities for extra care in this country, I think (and hope) more schemes like this will be created.

these homes have to go somewhere, no one wants them in their back gardens or in their communities but these are desperately needed.

where I live people are trying to fight the building of 500 new homes, mainly for the same reasons you state OP.

As someone else said, you can fight the care home but chances are another developer could come along with a plan for a housing estate instead. It is the lesser of two evils.

Perhaps you and other residents could appeal to the developer to move the car park away from your gardens at least? Chances are the care home will be in landscaped grounds and there may be scope to move the car park on the plans so you are overlooking the grounds instead.

But given it's a care home, I think you are overestimating the amount of pollution and noise there will be once it is built. The build itself will of course be noisy.

Let's hope that there are care homes around when you or your elderly relatives need them. But just out of sight of your home, eh OP?

This is good advice IMO.

The carpark of a care home must be just about the best option if the site is developed, and it sounds like it will. Focus on sensible mitigations.

Given what the OP has said about her child in the opening post, you would think community based schemes such as this one would be a huge benefit. As they have severe ADHD/ASD, they might end up in supported social housing as an adult.