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    Planning Objections

    Appeals can be both costly and lengthy - neither of which are in a developer's interests. If it's a major planning application, then you're easily looking at spending 6 figures on an appeal and waiting 9-12 months (especially for a hearing or enquiry). Clearly if you can work with a LPA to...
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    Planning still live ?

    You need to check the decision notice for the property. Simple things like discharging a pre-commencement condition are enough to trigger implementation of the planning permission and making it extant.
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    Planning Objections

    Costs can only be awarded if one side has behaved unreasonably and in the vast majority of appeals, costs aren't awarded. I've seen some truly shocking delegated reports by officers in the past where there were clearly policy reasons to reject an application, but they concoct some nonsense to...
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    Planning Objections

    Security is a planning consideration, especially where you can have large congregations of people or the proposed development is in a high crime area - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/design#crime-prevention and https://www.gov.uk/guidance/design#security-measures Have you checked the responses so...
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    Occupancy of Land

    Adverse possession would fail here because there was consent given to use the land by the original owners and it's only been 8 years since the property changed ownership. The leading case on consent and adverse possession is J A Pye (Oxford) Ltd v Graham [2002] UKHL 30, in which Lord...
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    Secret bungalows in Birmingham

    Once an enforcement notice takes effect and the period for compliance has elapsed, then it becomes a criminal offence not to comply with the notice. The owner can then be prosecuted by the LPA and the potential fine is unlimited. The Courts will look at the financial benefit gained from the...
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    Secret bungalows in Birmingham

    The owner is clearly taking the biscuit: The outbuildings would be used as storage for the adjacent dwelling. - I would gladly put money that within 6 months, the owner will be renting them out again.
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    Development with PP and PD at the same time

    I think the latter is what they are looking at. The problem is that the plot is now overdeveloped as the property takes up around 60%. The rear corner of one side of the property is only 3m from the border and the other corner is only 1.2m from the side fence. They should have removed PD...
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    Development with PP and PD at the same time

    The only chance to challenge the permission would be a judicial review and given the length of time that has passed since permission was granted, it is unlikely to succeed.
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    Development with PP and PD at the same time

    The only pre-commencement condition was on materials, which was discharged. The problem is as @wessex101 said, enforcement is a discretionary process. It would appear to me that the Council are looking for ways to avoid taking enforcement action.
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    Development with PP and PD at the same time

    Before After This is the resident's view (it's less than 30m to their properties and I believe 18m high) I've looked at the LGO. Unfortunately, they don't have any powers to force LPAs to take action which is why I'm looking at all possible means (including legal).
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    Development with PP and PD at the same time

    The bizarre thing is that the planning officer even said: The design looks horrible. It doesn't fit in with the area but we won't get far refusing permission on grounds of design. Interesting. I'll dig through the forum and see what I can find. One of the original objections was...
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    Development with PP and PD at the same time

    I believe most of them would be PD. The rear extension is questionable though without knowing the exact measurements. I read somewhere that the Council's could get extra funding to take enforcement action -...
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    Development with PP and PD at the same time

    Not sure if someone can help with this as I'm looking for case law/PI decisions, anyhow... A development with PP has breached planning conditions. The LPA have confirmed this, but they are unwilling to do anything about a number of the breaches as the developer is claiming that the changes are...
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    Conservatory rad size

    Cheaper way is to buy a dehumidifier - gets rid of the cold moist air. Worth a few degrees.
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    Cascading Vaillant boilers with weather compensation

    Two systems would definitely work as there are 4 x 28mm pipes going to the loft where they go to 35mm pipe to the current boilers. The boilers would have to remain in the loft though as it would be a nightmare to run the flues/condensate anywhere else. There is a Grundfos 25-55 pump on the...
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    Cascading Vaillant boilers with weather compensation

    I looked at Atag and their Q Series. Cascading is possible - but they jump from 25kW to 38kW so it's not economical to get two boilers. Their 60kW boiler was about 15% more expensive than the Vaillant 65kW equivalent, but controls were cheaper so I think balances out. I've only really been...
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    Cascading Vaillant boilers with weather compensation

    We have a MDA16 meter, but everything from the meter is concreted/screeded in so hopefully we have no size issues! If we were to redo the house, we would probably go down the route of thermal stores/ground source pumps etc. I have a friend who is getting a new pool but it's more like a...
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    Cascading Vaillant boilers with weather compensation

    I think Nest is geared more towards a/c anyway. Even water tanks are being replaced by dedicated water heaters (essentially like a combi boiler). I looked at those and they are true gas guzzlers - most around 180,000 - 200,000 BTU with around 80% efficiency. But they do deliver around 40l of...
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    Cascading Vaillant boilers with weather compensation

    I've always liked the idea of two - purely because one of the two current boilers has had virtually every part replaced since day one. The other one has never had a fault. The 7 year warranty is really worth it and also shows how confident Vaillant must be in their boilers these days. I...
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