Our neighbours are planning an extension. We raised an objection at the end of last week within the timescale and we are waiting to hear about this. As our existing extension (completed by previous occupants) of over 20 years is not shown on the drawings, they are planning to build right up to the boundary fence as far out as they possibly can 6 metres (a lot further out than our extension is) with a pitched glass roof in the centre, potentially impacting our foundations, our property (as he has not thought about drainage water damage), they will potentially be overlooking our main living area, reducing our light in our main living area open plan lounge/kitchen diner and our garden patio area and directly below our daughters bedroom. I dread to think what kind of gaudy annoying lighting system he will install.
He has some cowboy builders installing boxed guttering tonight now. I came in from work at 5.30pm they started at 5.45pm putting scaffolding up banging and clattering and some pieces fell into our garden so I daren’t open the patio doors to let the dog out or take out the recycling.
For context in the front they started to build a wall on the two years ago which they still isn’t finished. He forgot about the drainage pipes so their is a gap between the wall and our houses. They have had weeds, gravel, an old rotten toddler seesaw etc (their youngest DD is at secondary school) and a pile of bricks covered in tarpaulin in the front garden since then. They also installed tacky coloured lights into the wall which illuminated the old car on the drive, the gravel, weeds and pile of bricks. If we go to bed before they do I have to wear an eye mask as the coloured lights shine through the tiny slithers of space between our blackout blinds in our bedroom. They also shine through annoyingly if we are in the front room and they are unnecessarily bright.
In the back they also have extremely bright lights installed which we call ‘flood lights’ as they are not dis similar to illuminate all the dog shit which they never pick up. The lights are quite distracting if your trying to watch a film with subtle lighting on a night and we have no curtains or blinds on our patio doors.
If we have put an objection in what happens next? They have told another neighbour they want to start work on the extension ASAP. I am dreading it I work part time and have taken extra days off in the holidays to spend some time with older kids and am now envisaging having to go out everyday for the noise and mess and not being able to go into our garden or put washing out. I can imagine him getting jobs done as a foreigner so expect noise levels to be high on an evening and at weekends. DH also thinks the workmen maybe in our garden to build their extension? Do they have to ask for permission to do this in advance as we also have a dog but a nice quiet one whereas they have two big boisterous quite ferocious looking dogs. Thanks