We live on a road of semi detached 30s houses in a suburban town. Neighbours - who we are very friendly with - are planning major building work, including basement extension. It will be disruptive, particularly as I work at home… but we can’t complain, particularly as we did similar work a decade ago (before new neighbours moved in!)
Neighbours are lovely but do have a bit a tendency to be pushy to get exactly what they want at all costs, and also suffer a bit from ‘expert on everything’ syndrome 🤪
We knew they were planning for work to start at some point next summer, and had vaguely chatted about it. 2 days ago we get a sort of ‘gosh sorry, we simply didn’t realise our architect’s drawings were submitted for planning but they are on the council planning website now’ email from them.
They were submitted two weeks ago, and on the docs it says we have been ‘consulted’ on these plans - this simply isn’t true. When we did our work we were careful to go to all relevant neighbours with architectural plans BEFORE submission, so if there was anything they had issues with, we would amend accordingly.
I don’t know if this is simply bad manners, or if they’ve actually breached something here by claiming we’ve been consulted. Thoughts?