Hello all! Good to see all your extensions doing so well!
After some advice from you all - we FINALLY got our plans in. Spoke to architect and knowing our London borough, we went out to all our neighbours as they tend to automatically object when there are neighbour concerns.
No one had an issue so we submitted
Literally the day after we submitted, our next door neighbours have objected. Really stupid things like whether we will get a party wall and how they can't see what it would look like from their garden and whether we would make certain windows opaque or not (fgs!) and how far out the extension goes. And we put a note through their door and offered to go through the plans exactly for this reason!
Now we have a surface water drain on our drive. They have a bathroom draining into the surface water drain which they shouldn't and it floods our drive every time they use it (and all our rubbish sits on the drive).
Dp is furious as it's likely the council will now turn down the application on 6 Feb (which is how long it takes - this is the date we have been given). It will then take another 3 months to go through planning again - take into account we don't have proper heating/windows are all single glazed and the extensions are single brick and it's likely now, if we do get approval, that we won't be starting till the summer at the earliest.
Dp wants to report their incorrect use of the drain. I say keep our powder dry till we have planning and then do it if we still really want to (it is crap having someone's bath flood the front of the drive every day with bubbles and everything!). Wwyd?
We are so pissed off!