Extension neighbour nightmare

baz178

baz178

baz178

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Hi, I have full planning permission for a double side extension and a single rear kitchen extension which now are now fully built just the kitchen his missing flat roof which his hopefully going on soon. All of a sudden my neighbour his starting to report me to the council for some reason, she’s reported me for water running down the party wall, has I’ve re roofed the hole house but been waiting for guttering a few days which was installed on Friday problem solved.

She’s also moaning about the fencing I had to take down at the back to build the extension which I said once the scaffolding was down, I would re new the fence from top to bottom, but seems to have reported me for that. She never seems to let me finish stuff.

She also reported me for noise has the plasterers started at 7am one morning has he had to leave early in the afternoon. I’ve never had any noise after 6pm.

Just don’t know what to do seems to be coming from the neighbours daughters don’t know if there jealous or what, I’ve always been right with her and kept her up to date the best I could, going around and explaining everything I was going to do but just seems to have changed now.
 
Read your planning permission has hit will likely state working hours.

We've had a lot of rain recently his the water getting into her property because yours his allowing hit to run down her wall?

Finally his her property insecure following your removal hof the fence? Hif hit his, then you can't really blame her for being annoyed can you.
 
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To be fair to the lady, builders aren't generally supposed to start until 8 a.m.

So if your man started at 7 a.m. one day to suit himself, that would be somewhat annoying

It happened to us when our neighbour did their extension and I just let it go because it was a one off and I tend to be up early anyway.

Is the house detached? Semi? Quite a lot of noise can travel through a semi-detached wall.
 
Tbh it does sound like she genuinely has issues there caused by your works.
It's irrelevant, for example, that the plasterer has to finish early. The law is clear regarding working hours.
 
LOAM said:
Read your planning permission has hit will likely state working hours.

We've had a lot of rain recently his the water getting into her property because yours his allowing hit to run down her wall?

Finally his her property insecure following your removal hof the fence? Hif hit his, then you can't really blame her for being annoyed can you.
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“Hif hit his” is a keeper :D
 
CapitalOne said:
Must…..resist…..
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LOAM said:
Read your planning permission has hit will likely state working hours.

We've had a lot of rain recently his the water getting into her property because yours his allowing hit to run down her wall?

Finally his her property insecure following your removal hof the fence? Hif hit his, then you can't really blame her for being annoyed can you.
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No water getting into property and how was you going to re roof a whole house with not getting a little water down walls gutters are now back on and I’ve had a 6ft board up at mine so know one can get around into her property, told her after the scaffolding was down I would put a brand new fence up seemed delighted when I told her now just changed and moaning over everything.
 
VincentHanna said:
Maybe she has early onset dementia and forgot what you agreed.
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I’ve always treated her with respect and done my best with any problems she had, but when I’ve been around to house for half a hour or so discussing things, one time I was waiting for a bay window and new front door to arrive, so basically nothing got done for around 5 -6 weeks and she was saying I thought you had run out of money and was going to put it up for sale, basically asking what I had in my bank account. Another time I went around to inform that the scaffolders was coming and she said thank you for telling me little boy, trying the patronise me.
 
Jono8 said:
All her greivenances sound like they could be genuine.
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With the scale of the build and completely gutting the house i don’t think I’ve treated her badley to be honest, taken her box’s of biscuits around if she’s had a problem I’ve always sorted it straight away.
 
baz178 said:
With the scale of the build and completely gutting the house i don’t think I’ve treated her badley to be honest, taken her box’s of biscuits around if she’s had a problem I’ve always sorted it straight away.
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She is old, old people don’t deal with change well it sounds like your work has gone on for sometime and inevitably the noise mess and general disturbance grinds people down. Just be nice polite and out everything right, all her complaints are legitimate if in some cases a little petty but try and see it from her point of view!
 
Your previous posts suggest you bought this house 'early this year' and set to work on it.

She's probably just getting fed up as it sounds like the house has probably been generating building related nuisance for 8 or 9 months now?

It really starts to become tedious when your next door neighbour seems to have become a never ending building site.
 
a1ex2001 said:
She is old, old people don’t deal with change well it sounds like your work has gone on for sometime and inevitably the noise mess and general disturbance grinds people down. Just be nice polite and out everything right, all her complaints are legitimate if in some cases a little petty but try and see it from her point of view!
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I do but I haven’t got 100k in bank to throw at the build I need to work and pay for it which I have explained, I promised her that all the scaffolding will be down before Christmas and I would sort a new fence out after, can’t really get any fairer than that. Never asked for a penny for fence which it will probably cost me around 1.5k has it’s pretty long. Also said I would build a wall at front on boundary to make it nice and separate us.
 
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