"supermoocow" wrote in message
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Hello I don't know if anyone can help...

We live in a semi-detached house and our adjoining neighbour has just
informed me that they are planning on building a conservatory next to our
boundary. The conservatory will be only 0.5m from our dining room window
and
will extend out 4m.
This will reduce light into our dining room and we will no longer get
sunshine into our dining room or patio until about 15:30 rather than 11:00
which we enjoy at present.

The conservatory will not be large enough to require planning permission
and
the neighbour has also requested that the short hedge used as a boundary
be
removed and replaced as a fence or the hedge will be cut back to the
boundary which will most probably kill it.
The conservatory will be built upon the boundary of the property which we
are responsible for fencing etc.

Do we have any rights, what can we do to try to either stop or reduce the
amount of light loss from the conservatory?



If you haven't received a letter from the neighbour asking for your
objections or concerns, then you are within your rights to inform your local
authority that this build may impede your property both in privacy and right
to light circumstances. The local authority will then issue a notice of
concern to the neighbour and the proposed builder asking them to withdraw
planning before written permission is received from all neighbouring
properties which overlook this land.

No one has the right to tell you, that you must accept the things they put
on their property. If the neighbour was about erect a giant flashing glass
fibre dildo, then I think everyone around the area would have something to
say about it. Even if the dildo was of a size exempt from planning
permission, the owner would held responsible for their actions in building
something which may offend others. Well, the same goes for any building
work which may impede or offend others who overlook the land.

You do have the right of objection and you should have been given adequate
notice in writing before this proposed build was due to take, to allow you
to voice concerns.

Wait until it is built and when it is part of the boundary it becomes the
property of both parties under the party wall act. Then you can paint all
the windows on your side and tell the neighbour you just wanted a change in
decoration in your garden. Then you'll see how the right to objection
works. :-))


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