Planning permission

[painterp]

Neighbours have put in for planning permission for an extension which we have objected against,

We are semi detached and have complained on the basis that the extension will be an overdevelopment for the area, plus other reasons including sunlight into our garden.

The town council has uploaded that they are in support of the application.

Anyone ever had s situation where the town council is in support but the planners turn round and say no?

Just dreading the amount of noise tbh.

@Seeline Exactly!
I think they will get planning unfortunately- not sure how well the conservation officer will do their job.
The house is being extended to the side- along the boundary to our garden and the garage will form a kitchen extension with a 5th bedroom suite above.

You could contact the conservation officer and ask him to visit your property. Tell him you are concerned about the impact on the LB and it's setting. Is it your historic walls you mentioned? If so they would also be protected by the Listed status and should be considered.
Speak to your local district Councillor too.

Yes I think we'll do that. Not sure if they do visits ( cuts obvs) but we might be able to go to the offices.

The walls are beautiful and extend along our road. Very typical of this area , running along the front boundary at about 90cm high.
They have applied to build up to 1.8m at the front with huge gates and to knock some of it down inside their front garden to provide parking .

@fakery how can you be sure they’re your neighbours? There are probably 1000s of semis being extended at least in the country at the moment which could fit OPs description.

Also you can’t request people stop replying to the OP 😄 and reverses are allowed. But sorry about y YOUR neighbours, that does sound very stressful.

@WildAloofRebel
100% sure . Every single detail matches, particularly in the list of objections from us and the neighbours on the other side.

I don't see it would affect the value of yours.
If anything it would make it more appealing to potential buyers: it would show them potential for extending and indicate that if one neighbour had done it, they would be very likely to get permission to do so too.

@BeanzToastie If you read the post you'll see that the houses are in an l- shape and completely different. Mine is Listed and I wouldn't want to extend even if it was allowed.
We are not looking to move for years so the value doesn't bother us. The OP made that comment up.

I know that reverse posts are allowed- I just didn't want posters to waste their time helpfully posting to 'me' when it's really my neighbour impersonating me.