Anonymous objecting to planning?

radia

kceire wrote: »

You have to make a complaint in writing or email to the enforcement section of your LA. You have to include your name and address but these are confidential and will not be released to anybody, not even FOI request.

Great - that's reassuring. They'll probably guess I've contacted the Council anyway, but if there's room for doubt it might help to smooth relations a bit.

Nonetheless annoying that relations will probably deteriorate a bit since I'll probably end up cast as the bad guy (mean neighbour complaining) in their heads, even though they're the ones that are in the wrong and trying to screw me over. If they'd put in an application for what they've now done, I'd have objected and I'm pretty confident that the planners would have rejected the application. So to see them try to weasel their way to what they want, with a significant impact on my property, probably counting on me not wanting to rock the boat, is sly.

Aard wrote: »

Local Authority planners do not make it their business to go around checking for enforcement opportunities, particularly in rural areas. The main way of finding out if there is unauthorised development is by tipoffs from the public. They will take it very seriously both for planning reasons and for the fact that it can end up being lucrative for the Council.

Ok - thanks.

john_cappa

What they do?