Recent content by Amy Crabtree

Thank you. I have bought a site and location plans and sent them with the application. Fingers crossed it is alot more straight forward than they have made it so far!!

Ok thank you

Whats an auger lol

I think we are going for a portuguese laurel, its already 3 ft high and planting them at 2 every half meter so that will eventually make a nice dense hedge and keep people out!!! Had a quote on that so will be that i think. My daughter will spend forever hurting herself if we go for holly hahaha!!!

Thank you :)

Thank you for your advice. I really do appreciate it. I spent all day friday waiting in reception with an advisor diving in and out, finally thought i had got somewhere, then i made another quick enquiry with them today and got totally different answers to everything i thought we had sorted...

Just that they couldnt comment on others!! Im worried that all my questions etc will have been noted against our property and we will get 1 person on a bad day at work that will think we have taken liberties and refuse the change of use! If that makes sense. Thats normally how our luck works...

Thats pretty much what we have said. They wont allow a fence as it is not pleasing to the eye for the rest of the estate (even thought everyone else has fences!!), but the planning officer said there wouldnt be a problem getting planning permission for a 5 or 6ft solid brick wall!! What they...

Im sorry, i must sound so thick but i dont understand any of that!! This is our first home and we have never ever dealt woth anything like this. We just thought it would be a case of yes you can put a hedge around pr whatever. The solicitors confirmed it is our land, it is all on the deeds/land...

Its our land, all that has been confirmed as we have only just bought the property. Theres no dispute about it being our land. Its just the change of use and depending on who we speak to on what day, what is required for the change of use changes everytime!!

No lol. Its a little triangle of grass at the side of my house! The total boundary including the front is 30 metres!!!

We have a small piece of land at the side of our property which is our land, however, we want to knock down the (extremely) small wall between our back garden and the side lawn, and then put a hedge around the side to extend our garden out. The council have already said they wont grant planning...