planning permission

[spx]

Hi anyone know anything about planning law? I have planning permission to build 1st storey extension, but am only allowed to come out 5m. Existing single storey extension is 5.8m.

Seems petty to me but council won't let me take it out full distance on top. someone told me if I build it and noone objects for four years council cant make me take it down.

Is this correct, especially as I have planning permission?

Cheers.

 

[davey0001]

There is a case recently of a guy who built a bungalow inside a big barn he had in a field.

No one could see this house and so no one complained. At the end of the 4 years he then took down the barn and claimed that the council could do nothing because there had been no complaint.

Technically he was correct but the Local authority took it to court and won.

The guy then appealed and I think he lost again.

So be wary - they have strong powers and the technicalities of the law can be overridden.

This guy had been living in a house in a barn for ages. He was mightily p1ssed off.

 

[big-all]

There is a case recently of a guy who built a bungalow inside a big barn he had in a field.

No one could see this house and so no one complained. At the end of the 4 years he then took down the barn and claimed that the council could do nothing because there had been no complaint.

Technically he was correct but the Local authority took it to court and won.

The guy then appealed and I think he lost again.

http://icsurreyonline.icnetwork.co....objectid=18065510&siteid=50101-name_page.html

yep that was just down the road from here