Changes to planning once house is built!

[squealeyhealey]

I would be most grateful for any advice regarding planning for my self build. I am required to and have complied with the council’s requirement to install opaque glass in the two upstairs windows on the side of my house, that overlook my neighbour. My neighbour has also asked me to make the ground floor glass door opaque, even though this is not a planning requirement. Since I’ve not done so, they have contacted the planning department & the senior planner came round to inspection the house. He said in hindsight they should have required the glass door to be opaque. My neighbour has installed a fence on his side of the boundary, so I’d not installed the privet hedge that I had intended to. The planner asked me to agree to opaque glass ilo the hedge. Since I don’t really want opaque glass & definitely don’t want to agree to change the planning ilo of a hedge! I’m putting in the hedge as shown on the approved plans.

My question is - If I have complied with all the requirements for planning. Can the Council force me to make a glass door opaque even though it was not a requirement of the original planning approval?

[Alan Ambrose]

In a word, ‘no’.. does the fence not do the same job, anyway?