Hi,
I'm after some advice regarding planning law for raising the level of a rear garden. Basically my adjoining neighbours and my rear gardens are on stepped levels as the houses are built on a slope, the botom half of the garden being lower than the top.
My neighbour has raised up the bottom half of his garden by just over 2'-3' to bring it up to the same level as the top.
He has built a double brick retaining wall around his side of the boundary fence to hold back the infill.
I spoke to a local planning officer this morning who suggested planning permission is probably required but she also seemed concerned about the source of the infill he has used, basically looks like demolition rubble, bricks, concrete etc as this could be contaminated.
I'm concerned that this could possibly cause issues in the future due to drainage or water run off into my garden or possibly collapse of the retaining wall if it's not been built to standard. My other concern is the matter of privacy as what was a 6'6" fence between our gardens is now about 4'5" on his side and can easily be seen over.
Spoke to my neighbour tonight and he has stopped anymore work. He's a really nice guy but he's just been given bad advice from friends it seems and didnt realise it was a planning issue and i hadnt realised what he'd done untill the weekend.
Anyway i'm just looking for advice or someone to point me in the direction of some solid evidence that planning is required before speaking to my nieghbour again. Was hoping i could print off something from the direct.gov planning portal but this does seem to be a grey area.
Thanks in advance.
Steve
I'm after some advice regarding planning law for raising the level of a rear garden. Basically my adjoining neighbours and my rear gardens are on stepped levels as the houses are built on a slope, the botom half of the garden being lower than the top.
My neighbour has raised up the bottom half of his garden by just over 2'-3' to bring it up to the same level as the top.
He has built a double brick retaining wall around his side of the boundary fence to hold back the infill.
I spoke to a local planning officer this morning who suggested planning permission is probably required but she also seemed concerned about the source of the infill he has used, basically looks like demolition rubble, bricks, concrete etc as this could be contaminated.
I'm concerned that this could possibly cause issues in the future due to drainage or water run off into my garden or possibly collapse of the retaining wall if it's not been built to standard. My other concern is the matter of privacy as what was a 6'6" fence between our gardens is now about 4'5" on his side and can easily be seen over.
Spoke to my neighbour tonight and he has stopped anymore work. He's a really nice guy but he's just been given bad advice from friends it seems and didnt realise it was a planning issue and i hadnt realised what he'd done untill the weekend.
Anyway i'm just looking for advice or someone to point me in the direction of some solid evidence that planning is required before speaking to my nieghbour again. Was hoping i could print off something from the direct.gov planning portal but this does seem to be a grey area.
Thanks in advance.
Steve