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A useful little checklist I cam across on my local COuncil website for people planning to object to a Planning Application, or trying to make a Planning Application bulletproof. What Is A Planning Consideration? Should you wish to comment on a current planning application, the following lists shows other considerations that will and will not normally be taken into account when considering a planning application Material Planning Considerations - what is normally taken into account? Relevant policies Overshadowing/Loss of light Overlooking/Loss of privacy Scale/Size Design/Appearance/Materials/Layout Dominance Highway/Pedestrian safety issues Traffic generation Site history Noise/Disturbance/Smells Local character Conservation (historic buildings) Loss of important open spaces Drainage issues Wildlife (particularly protected species such as bats or newts) Landscaping and trees Loss of important physical features Potential conditions Non-material Panning Considerations - What is not normally taken into account? Impact on property values Private property issues such as boundary dispute, access rights, damage caused to your property by a third property Matters covered by other legislation such as Licensing or Building Regulations The perceived morals/future intentions of developers Loss of a view Competition (ie new competitor business starting up) The above lists are by no means exhaustive but give an overview of the types of issues that would normally or not normally be considered. Link: https://www.ashfield.gov.uk/residents/planning-and-building-control/planning/what-is-a-planning-consideration/ Yay Newts! Ferdinand

Good morning Guys, I spent some time over on the Foundations forum yesterday, and the help I received there was brilliant....so wondered if you might be able to do the same here? We have a Grade II listed thatched cottage. It is 400 years old, and consequently, is quite....bijou, with no storage space at all (loft, cupboards, etc) when you've got as much paraphernalia as us, not to mention the professional dancer daughter, with a container load of dance costumes....anyway, I digress... We knew the house wouldn't work for us in it's current state, so we came up with the plan for a Suffolk cartlodge, with storage room above, and asked the council HO their opinion BEFORE we bought it, wherein we were told, it just has to be 'in-keeping'. Having bought the house, we drew up the plans, and took them once again to the council, this time the Senior PO said they all looked fine. We submitted the plans, and NOW they come back and say we can't have that as it affects the listed houses 'dominance'...and that it must be single storey, with any storage in the roof area. They ignore next-doors cartlodge, admittedly single bay, but as tall as our cottage, and literally 3 metres away! Now our proposed building, is away from the house, set at the rear of the plot, behind a tall hedge, and would be painted Sadolin black. Roof-space storage is not only nowhere near large enough. I also have MS, and as my mobility decreases, I won't be able to access it anyway. So in many ways single storey works better from my perspective, but would leave an even larger footprint, which is why we discounted it before we started all this. There is much more to all this, but I sense you are losing the will to live, so will get to my question.... Are we better off getting them to write out the refusal, setting in stone their objections, or amending the original application, and facing months/years of continual goal post moving and ending up with a totally compromised building, that doesn't fulfil our need? Many thanks for your time guys. Simon