WANT TO OBJECT TO A PLANNING APPLICATION IN OSCOTT

I am asked now and again by Oscott residents how to stop an unwelcome planning application.

Residents can object although new rules introduced by the government this year do seem to have made it easier for those making an application?.

The Planning department usually give you 3 weeks for comments on a planning application, although in practise they will accept comments up until the day the application is decided. The Planning department cannot guarantee, however, that late comments will be considered. The consultation end date is given in their letters, or any site notices and newspaper adverts, and on Planning Online.

It may help if you want to object or even if you want to support a planning application to know what is taken into consideration or not as the case may be.

Comments received must relate to planning matters. 
These include

:        Loss of privacy

• Loss of light
• Intensity of development
• Design and appearance
• Highway matters, such as traffic and parking
• Impact on community facilities

Not taken into consideration are take into account:

• Loss of property value
• Commercial competition
• Loss of view
• Disturbance during building work
• Land ownership disputes

As a rule of thumb I would always advise before altering you house or building anything you check with the Planning department and for those wishing to object to a planning application  should do the same.