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Proximity of proposed development to my home

Mgit · 2016-02-19 23:58:13

I hope I can explain this correctly but I would appreciate some opinions on whether I should object to a proposed development directly behind my house. I live in a detached house in a small development that was completed 15 years ago and there is a row of 6 houses including mine backing onto a new development that's been…

19-02-2016 11:58pm

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Mgit

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I hope I can explain this correctly but I would appreciate some opinions on whether I should object to a proposed development directly behind my house.

I live in a detached house in a small development that was completed 15 years ago and there is a row of 6 houses including mine backing onto a new development that's been ongoing for a few years. It was a ghost estate but resumed construction a recently.

When i purchased my house there was planning for houses behind mine that were 11m back from the boundary wall. They were designed not to overlook with only opaque bathroom and landing windows to the rear at first floor level. The development gardens are elevated over my garden level by about 1.4m.
The developer applied for planning last year to totally change the houses behind us to overlook with taller houses, dormer windows etc. My neighbours and I objected and the developer withdrew the application and reinstated the original design directly behind us to what it was before, but changed the houses further back.

This is a normal housing development with a mix of house types, and the developer has put in a new planning application to build a single storey assisted living unit directly behind us with a gable wall totally tight to my boundary wall, but it has no windows, however the site ground level is elevated 1.4m over my garden level, and my garden is very shallow and just 7m deep, and even my own rear wall makes my house feel enclosed when looking out the back window.

Do you think I have a valid reason to object when there is no windows on the gable, and it's single store keeping in mind their development is more elevated than mine?

The developer has lodged about 10 planning applications in the last two years and keeps changing things. Im worried that the developer has no intention of building the assisted living units and will instead lodge another planning application to change the units in the future, to instead continue the terrace of houses behind us to bring two storey gables right up to our boundary wall. If they get permission for the single storey gables right behind us does it set a precedent for another application to be granted as they already has permission to build tight to my wall?

Do you think I should object and if yes on what grounds?

I really appreciate any opinions. Thanks

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