If you had a planning permission notice displayed near your property.....

[Mallowmarshmallow]

Did your neighbours also receive a letter or was it instead of letters?

Our notice went up on a lamppost near our property yesterday afternoon and I'm hoping it means our neighbours might not get a letter....and also that they might not see the notice!

They get a letter as well. The lamppost notices are for passers-by

Should be both. But only those neighbours immediately affected get a letter and relevant consultees. Ie we did not for the property at end of our garden.

Adjoining properties will get individual letters in addition to the notice. The neighbourly way to do these things is to speak to the neighbours BEFORE you put the application in.

All next door neighbours will get a letter. By next door they mean the immediate neighbours that will have a boundary with your property. The sign near the property is so other neighbours can see and comment on the proposal if they wish.

You seem to want to hide that you have put in your application. Is it very contentious? They can only complain on valid planning restrictions so the council won't take notice that Mr Smith doesn't want you to have your extension as he doesn't like you etc...... My advice is speak to your neighbours, don't try to hide it. The more you hide the more you will piss them off and then the objections may go flooding in.

Agree with @bigbluebus. I live in a terrace and my neighbours put in an application for something that affected me massively. The first I knew of it was the lamppost sign followed closely by a letter. A friendly chat about what they were proposing would have been the considerate thing.

Yup they get a letter. Your council will probably have an online portal where you can see a copy of the letter that went out and in time you may see objections that your neighbours have put forward.

Thanks all.

We have spoken to neighbours about our plans and they know to be expecting a letter imminently.

We are friendly but they were awkward when we extended downstairs (in line with their already built extension) and I expect they will be again. I understand that they can only dispute in line with planning rules although I've had differing advice on what those planning rules are likely to be.

I guess it's a waiting game now to see what the council come back with.

The posting of notices depends a bit on the council. Wandsworth don't for smaller applications it seems. Check your council's planning website to see what they do.

Here we have found adjoining properties if you are next door but across the parish boundary so in the adjacent parish to the plans will not automatically get details in the post. You will not necessarily get notification, it's only if the person at the council decides you should get notification. Which isn't exactly helpful, you just need to be sure to check the website every month. Friend's neighbour has got stuck with a major development change in the field across from them resulting in bungalows changing to 3 storey houses with revised plans they were not told about.

There’s a few notices round here which are no where near the property the planning application is for. Almost like they are trying to hide them. If neighbours get letters then I don’t get the point.