LandRoverTom
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I finally got the planning permission submitted for my garage.
I thought that the most sensible thing would be to speak with the neighbours first as we seemed to get on and being as it would be a large garage next to their fence I thought it only polite and would help sort any potential issues before spending time and money on it.
That all went well, said neighbour seemed impressed and happy with the plans.
All of a sudden they've sent letters of objection which pretty much read like I'd imagined the conversations we'd had. now most of what they raise is in fact not fatually correct (concerns over fire risk & noise. That's ok, I'm planning to build with Insulated Concrete Forms, heres the fire rating cert showing a min of 4 hours and the noise transmission cert showig it exceeds party wall standards. and so it went on)
Now the most tricky part for which if anyone on here has any thought and perhaps a similar experience I'd be greatful for thoughts -
The subject of what you do etc. came up in a friendly conversation - I'm an electrical engineer at sea. and why do I want a large garage - I have a lathe and tinker with cars and my land rover and motorbike as hobbies.
He mentioned 3 phase power - I've already spoken to the local DNO and have a reasonable quote for that. And so the polite conversation continued.
The problem is now the objection letters are claiming that clearly if I'm supposedly an engineer and own a lathe and plan on putting 3 phase power in, then I must be planning to run a buisness from there....
Any thoughts on how to address that?
I've replied stating that it's a homeowner planning application for a domestic garage. And that the local DNO are putting 3 phase into all new bulds as standard where they can in readyness for electric vehicles, heat pumps and all that. And that the lathe etc are only hobbies.
I'm hoping that the council see through their ignorance and maybe at worst slap a condition of planning on it that it can never be turned into a commercial premises....
I thought that the most sensible thing would be to speak with the neighbours first as we seemed to get on and being as it would be a large garage next to their fence I thought it only polite and would help sort any potential issues before spending time and money on it.
That all went well, said neighbour seemed impressed and happy with the plans.
All of a sudden they've sent letters of objection which pretty much read like I'd imagined the conversations we'd had. now most of what they raise is in fact not fatually correct (concerns over fire risk & noise. That's ok, I'm planning to build with Insulated Concrete Forms, heres the fire rating cert showing a min of 4 hours and the noise transmission cert showig it exceeds party wall standards. and so it went on)
Now the most tricky part for which if anyone on here has any thought and perhaps a similar experience I'd be greatful for thoughts -
The subject of what you do etc. came up in a friendly conversation - I'm an electrical engineer at sea. and why do I want a large garage - I have a lathe and tinker with cars and my land rover and motorbike as hobbies.
He mentioned 3 phase power - I've already spoken to the local DNO and have a reasonable quote for that. And so the polite conversation continued.
The problem is now the objection letters are claiming that clearly if I'm supposedly an engineer and own a lathe and plan on putting 3 phase power in, then I must be planning to run a buisness from there....
Any thoughts on how to address that?
I've replied stating that it's a homeowner planning application for a domestic garage. And that the local DNO are putting 3 phase into all new bulds as standard where they can in readyness for electric vehicles, heat pumps and all that. And that the lathe etc are only hobbies.
I'm hoping that the council see through their ignorance and maybe at worst slap a condition of planning on it that it can never be turned into a commercial premises....