Ambaz79

The 2 storey element is a view from the east facing window. Totally understand that this would not be an ideal thing for my neighbour but these are south facing plots so really the view should be directed to there garden and not our garden (ideally). A compromise we have suggested to my local planning offer is we remove the 1st storey element to the west and just have a ground floor element only. They have kind of said they are not keen on this too and would like us to remove the whole side extension. This is really more the problem as this would make my lounge allot smaller and we would have over 4M of land to the side that we would not really use any other way.

Hello All We are on a 2nd planning application as the 1st one was refused on the grounds of Design and Dominance to my Neighbour on our western side. The 1st application was refused without any communication between us and the planning officers although we did reach out to them on a number of occasions (calls and Emails) with no response. On our 2nd application we had the opportunity to talk to the planning officer who talked us though the changes required and said this should now be in a position to be re-submitted for a more favourable result. We then submitted the 2nd application and had a email on Friday evening to say the scheme still has a big overbearing impact to my neighbour as well as a few design issues. Design issues are splitting a 1st floor window into 2 and changing the design of the roof to lower the ridge. Both have been done very easily. The main sticking point now is the dominance to the neighbours window that faces east to our flack wall that is 2 story. The Neighbours window is a corner window that has a bigger section facing south as its a south facing plot and around the corner is the east facing windows facing our plot. I have attached a few drawings to show the windows in question. Distance from our extension to Boundary is just over 1.66M. Distance from boundary to the neighbouring window is 1.6M. Neighbours property is around 50cm higher than ours is its on a slight hill. I have a few questions with regards to this application. Is the window on the corner treated as 1 big window or would the window to the east be treated as a single window and the window to the west be treated as a separate window. How does/should the planning officer decide what part of the window is the primary/principle side. They have now also said we would need to build in line with the current house that's there. This means stepping back the extension by just over 2 Meters and also includes the ground floor extension. Would a ground floor extension really cause this much of a over dominance. Do views to the North of this window also count towards over dominance as this would be a un-natural way to look as the person would be either looking into there alley way or directly onto our plot. I hope I have given enough into to help you advise me on this. A few pictures attached. Thanks