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I had an idea who it was but I was told it was not them - that’s what they said anyway in the meeting, so now I have no idea who it is. But no I don’t think there will be revenge or at least I hope not. I will take some pics this week so you can see what we have done and the rest of the road...

Thanks Woody I plan to do that as I got totally confused by all the things they were saying (and I’ll be honest with you I got a bit emotional and teared up a bit too because it is all such a nonsense and it’s so stressful so that didn’t help!!) about routes to take and when councillors would...

Yes paid over £1k for dropped kerb only a car width long. Got all paperwork for that.

If I remember correctly it was a lot of info in this meeting, he said 20 years ago it was ruled building work to put in hard standing was all included in PD but this was appealed in June 2018. And that 20 yr old interpretation was classed as incorrect and building to put in hard standing not...

Yes the ruling changed in June this year we did driveway May last year so over a year before, but they said it didn’t matter they had 4 years to do enforcement in. We asked if we put some soil back and sloped the drive would they accept that like a neighbour has done? Nope nope nope. There was...

He basically said we can apply for planning and go that route or he will decide if he will enforce but basically implied he would because of this new ruling and mentioned street scene (people want our section of road to look nice - though we aren’t listed or conservation so how we were supposed...

We can’t afford that unfortunately. Does feel a bit like they have all the cards and we have none.

So had the meeting today with the planners that sent the letter, and from what I can gather a ruling changed in June that means any work to put in a hard standing deeper than a railway sleeper classes as engineering. Even though our work was done over a year before this, we can be served an...

Their vague language means you can’t know if you’ve done something wrong. We totally believed we had followed all the rules, did what was required and weren’t ever trying to deceive or cheat the Council. Now we are going to have lost a lot of money which we saved really hard for and then spend...

Yes we got all the proper paperwork for the dropped kerb and it is a permeable surface we put gravel down as that was all we could afford at the time hoping to do the permeable brick at a later date. We have put in a small wall approx 1m high at the back but again for PD it says as long as it’s...

Thank you Woody. No we don’t believe it was significant excavating we believe it is a malicious neighbour who doesn’t like looking at it. How that one nasty person can have such a large personal (we have a small child and the drive allows us to get her in and out the car safely and close to our...

I don’t know exactly I’m sorry, but it is approx 4m long, 2.5m wide and has a small wall approx 1m high at the back. We used a Council contractor to do the work and neither PP or engineering were ever mentioned. We also installed a dropped kerb and the council never mentioned it then either and...

hello, Can anyone help? We have received a letter from the Council saying they have received a complaint about our driveway. We dug out the front garden to put in a hard standing believing this was a PD, now 18months later following this complaint, the Council are saying we should have got PP...