ok so this is a rant, and just to get this out the way - I do not like this guy next door.
we live in a paired, semi detached house, with said neighbour being to our left.
We share a large driveway, with no markings, but in terms of boundary it is divided along the line where the houses meet.
So in the last few weeks we've seen a lot of unknown cars park on his side of the driveway and on 3 occasions his "guests" have parked on our side (not a problem pre lockdown, but this amount of traffic seemed unusual).
We noticed lots of people in his back garden who seemed to stay overnight - eventually we figures he's been letting out a summer house (basically a shed) on Air BNB. He's had over 30 guests in the last 2 months.
From the Air BNB site you can see that the summer house has water / leccy / heating etc, so he's essentially turned it into a habitable dwelling, which would need planning permission.
As it happens in our area operating a holiday let also requires planning approval.
So, why is this bothering me? Years ago we applied for planning to build a new garage (to our right, away from his house). This guy for entirely petty reasons objected to the planners 8 times, all points having been subsequently been rejected by the planning officer. After the garage was built he brought a surveyor to our house (whilst we were out!) and measured the position of the garage with a laser and found it to be the correct size but 50cm in the "wrong" position and made a huge fuss with the planners. We had to apply for retrospective planning approval to keep our new garage in the "wrong" position. I kid you not.
Yes my own complaint is a bit childish but, were in lockdown and you can't have overnight guests - and his summer house is actually a habitable annexe and needs planning approval. So, good folk of OCUK, should I give him hell??
we live in a paired, semi detached house, with said neighbour being to our left.
We share a large driveway, with no markings, but in terms of boundary it is divided along the line where the houses meet.
So in the last few weeks we've seen a lot of unknown cars park on his side of the driveway and on 3 occasions his "guests" have parked on our side (not a problem pre lockdown, but this amount of traffic seemed unusual).
We noticed lots of people in his back garden who seemed to stay overnight - eventually we figures he's been letting out a summer house (basically a shed) on Air BNB. He's had over 30 guests in the last 2 months.
From the Air BNB site you can see that the summer house has water / leccy / heating etc, so he's essentially turned it into a habitable dwelling, which would need planning permission.
As it happens in our area operating a holiday let also requires planning approval.
So, why is this bothering me? Years ago we applied for planning to build a new garage (to our right, away from his house). This guy for entirely petty reasons objected to the planners 8 times, all points having been subsequently been rejected by the planning officer. After the garage was built he brought a surveyor to our house (whilst we were out!) and measured the position of the garage with a laser and found it to be the correct size but 50cm in the "wrong" position and made a huge fuss with the planners. We had to apply for retrospective planning approval to keep our new garage in the "wrong" position. I kid you not.
Yes my own complaint is a bit childish but, were in lockdown and you can't have overnight guests - and his summer house is actually a habitable annexe and needs planning approval. So, good folk of OCUK, should I give him hell??
