Neighbours and planning permission

[Northernladdette]

We’ve lived here three and a half years, our neighbours a little longer.
We don’t know them very well but do greet/make small talk.
We’ve received a letter from the council regarding planning permission.
I might have thought they would gave mentioned it to us first. Thoughts?

I couldn't get worked up about this. It's sort of speculative until you see if you can get planning permission whether or not you'll actually be doing any work. Some people get planning permission to show it can be done before selling a house and it might never come to anything anyway.

Why do you think they would've mentioned it to you first?

Good manners?

Manners?
Have you looked at the plans? Is there a problem with them?

I agree that it would be mannerly to inform neighbours of the plans but it seems most people don’t bother with such niceties so much these days.
You’d be best detaching yourself from whatever it is they are doing unless you have reason to object to the plans. Speaking from experience it’s the kind of thing that can cause tremendous stress and really isn’t worth it.
Hopefully your neighbours plans won’t affect you and they don’t change them halfway through! Also you don’t need to be interested or mannerly enough to let their builders onto your land…

Maybe be they were a bit nervous about the whole thing.

Upcoming noise, contractors’ vans parked all over the place, possibly needing access to OP’s land. Basically being a considerate person.

Assuming the permission hasn't been granted yet, none of that is relevant as it stands.

Well we spoke to our neighbours at various points over the three years it took us to get to the planning permission stage, and they still took a monumental huff when they got the notification.

So are you sure they never mentioned anything? Is it possible that they did, but you just assumed it wasn’t going to go ahead?

(Also, your thread is in U.K. Travel topic. You might want to get it moved.)

Depends on what they're having done, surely? It may not affect the OP at all, e.g. new window that does not overlook her.

It really costs nothing to say to a neighbour that you’re planning an extension etc. There’s always some disruption that comes with a building project and while the fine details are nobody’s business, a bit of notice is neighbourly. Better that than a letter from the council about something happening a few metres away… That stands whether the permission is granted or not.

It might have been polite but rather depends on the scope of the pp. In many new builds even a garden shed needs permission but has neglible effect on op.

It's a business issue not social? 🤷‍♀️

Always some disruption? That's just not true, is it? My neighbours have had all sorts of alternations over the years. Only one has ever had the slightest impact on me.

Not sure how it ended up in UK Travel, I definitely didn’t select that. Never found it easy starting a new thread on here. As it is I’ve had to google it this time 😩