Digger1 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Our planning officer is requesting we send photos of our site, they wont be doing a site visit unless its deemed necessary. We have had one neighbour object since our proposed development will take some light from their secondary window. Any do's or don'ts when it comes to the photographs i chose to take and send in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Take photos and clearly mark a Google map with the location and direction and try and make them triangular so the point is the location and the “base” of the triangle the width / scope of the photo so they can see what you’ve taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyT Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Take lots, send in the ones that show the work in a good manner, I just took photos and did nothing to alter/edit them. just advised that pic 1 was new drainage, pic 2 was air bricks, pic 3 was etc etc. Look at each photo on the PC to see that nothing in the background highlights any issues, things like bottles of fairy liquid next to cement mixers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToughButterCup Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, Digger1 said: Our planning officer is requesting we send photos of our site, they wont be doing a site visit ... ... Ask the planning officer for a list of things that are important to the decision that will be made. Simply asking for '... some photos... ' is lazy to the point of rudeness. You need a proper brief. And to claim that a site visit is now not necessary unless deemed necessary points either to over-work, or trying to get the customer to do their work for them . Edited August 18, 2021 by ToughButterCup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Punter Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 If this is a rear extension can you take a photo of the back, including the neighbour's secondary window? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Temp Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 If this was an application for a wind farm you would take the photo from a position where your development would be hidden by a tree ? Seriously though.. imagine the planning officer drawing your development on the photo. You want them taken from a position where the result won't make it look like its towering over the neighbours house. So I'd take photo from the fence line with the neighbour looking towards your house rather than from the other side of the garden where your development would hide the neighbours. You can include photos of any similar development in the road but make sure you mark them to avoid confusion and take them from angles that make them look similarly favourable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangti6 Posted August 18, 2021 Share Posted August 18, 2021 Goes without saying I guess, but ensure there's nothing in the photographs that can be referenced against you. Perhaps a tree that you intend to cut down for example. I fell in to that trap with some shrubs that have to be retained as a condition, and photographs I sent were added to the application showing said shrubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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