Hello everyone,
We have just been informed that our planning application for a 2 storey side extension has been refused on the grounds of it being intrusive to our neighbours land. Our house is a 3 bed semi and the extension plan was to build a two storey which would incorporate a garage, utility to the rear on the ground floor and a large bedroom and extension of an existing bedroom into the new building. The dimensions of which are 3m in width and 8.5m in length.
The build would have gone almost (bar 10 inch) to the boundary which is a fence and would cover approximately 60% of our driveway down the side of the house. Planning have stated that the extension would encroach on our neighbour's space being next to their garden as their house is set off ours being on a cul de sac. We agreed with our architect that we would not have a window in the gable as we were to have a window at the front and rear of the new bedroom and also for privacy purposes for the neighbours.
This decision has been made despite the neighbour in question being un objective of the proposal!
Is there any point appealing? I fear that if we take off any sizeable dimension from the width to satisfy planning would leave us with an expensive but useless space. We have made the decision to extend due to having twins recently, subsequently needing more space.
Any advice would be appreciated as we are very inexperienced at this and a second opinion would be very useful.
Thank you in advance!
We have just been informed that our planning application for a 2 storey side extension has been refused on the grounds of it being intrusive to our neighbours land. Our house is a 3 bed semi and the extension plan was to build a two storey which would incorporate a garage, utility to the rear on the ground floor and a large bedroom and extension of an existing bedroom into the new building. The dimensions of which are 3m in width and 8.5m in length.
The build would have gone almost (bar 10 inch) to the boundary which is a fence and would cover approximately 60% of our driveway down the side of the house. Planning have stated that the extension would encroach on our neighbour's space being next to their garden as their house is set off ours being on a cul de sac. We agreed with our architect that we would not have a window in the gable as we were to have a window at the front and rear of the new bedroom and also for privacy purposes for the neighbours.
This decision has been made despite the neighbour in question being un objective of the proposal!
Is there any point appealing? I fear that if we take off any sizeable dimension from the width to satisfy planning would leave us with an expensive but useless space. We have made the decision to extend due to having twins recently, subsequently needing more space.
Any advice would be appreciated as we are very inexperienced at this and a second opinion would be very useful.
Thank you in advance!