planning appeals

[herhonesty]

if you go to appeal do the people who originally objected get notified and do they get an opportunity to object again?

Yes

does it all go public ie. can the person making the appeal see your comments and vice versa at any point?

Yes, it ought to be on the council website like normal applications.

Do you have an agent? You really should have one, especially if it's going to appeal.

OP are you the appellant or an objector?

We?re the appellant. We applied for offstreet parking and planners turned it down.

Our neighbour kicked up a fuss about the impact it would have on her, which the planner agreed with, but the planner didn?t take into account that our neighbour has ample parking at the rear of the property (garage, offstreetx2) so there should be no impact. She's worried that if we have offstreet parking, her visitors will have to park in front of her house,and block her view, rather than what they do now which is park in front of our house.

We didn?t mention this at planning stage as we didn?t want to get involved with an ongoing parking dispute between her and her other neighbour (long running saga that we don?t want to get involved with), but planning consultant has said we?d need to to move forward.

Long and short of it is whether we risk pissing neighbours off even more particularly if we cite parking at rear.

Sorry a bit long and complicated and boring?.

Ah understood.

Not boring at all, I'm an Architect so take a natural interest in case I come across a similar problem.

As there was an objection your application should have been referred to planing committee because officers are only allowed to deal with non-contentious proposals - under what are known as 'delegated powers.' It would be unusual if your council didn't have this procedure in place. So if the decision was taken by politicians rather than the professional officers, I am not entirely surprised if that verdict was unexpected - councillors don't have a strong reputation for consistency!

Appeals can often be expensive (and acrimonious) but, as you have a planning consultant, I'm sure you don't need my advice. :)

its the acrimony tht a planning consultant cant really give advice on!!!