Flat Owner Next Door To My Flat Has Chipped Out A Channel All Along The Front Of My Flat Also Going Underneath My Bay Window And Has Put An Armoured Electric Cable With Large Clips To Secure It Taken The Cable To His His Flat But Before Doing So He Has

[Ackybear]

run the cable to his flat but then gone on with the cable up the side of my flat by the bay window again
The electrician has not covered the cables and it looks a dreadful mess .This was done whilst I was abroad a few months ago .Last week I came back from a weekend away and I coukd not believe it there is now another cable not armoured running along the same channlel as the other one but at the side of my flat they have put a tall but narrow 8 inches solar panel which may be for a smoke alarm but im not sure
This as at the front of flat.And my flat is one of 8 .The front of the flats are painted white and we are in a conservation area
He did not ask my permission at all ,His wife phoned and told me we have run a cable on the outside wall as the main hallway and landing area are to high and it would have cost them more money .She did not mention at the time that they had been put on my wall and bay window
The outside wall covering is cement with smaal gravel in it and the water is now getting in to the inside of my bay window and making it damp /
,They rent their flat out next door and when I e mail them to discuss it she does not reply and if i see her she claims not to have had any e mails but has the nerve to write to me to see how her tenant is behaving she gets those e mails
I feel because i am elderly that they think they can bully me
I have been told that its vandalism to chip someones walls and lay a cable without permission .I simple cannot aford a solicitor please help me Thankyou

[Zacs-Master]

Duplicate question.

[Tuvok]

You say you are in a conservation area - so would that come under the council?

If so, get in touch with them or whoever.

[atalanta]

Ask the Citizens Advice Bureau

[Islay]

Is your flat leasehold or freehold?

[Ackybear]

No its not a problem for the council thanks anyway
It is both leasehold and freehold and we all own one quarter of the freehold as there are 8 flats

[EDDIE51]

To do any work on a conservation order property needs full planning permission.
Go to the council and make an official complaint about unauthorised work on a conservation area property ! It will not cost you anything, the council MUST act if there has been unauthorised work!
The flat owner is going to be in a LOT of trouble!

[Zacs-Master]

Eddie, your confusing area with order. Two quite separate things as far as planning is concerned. A conservation order covers buildings which are unique or distinctive. I'm not sure the OPs pebble dashing would be covered.

[jackthehat]

EDDIEs advice is wrong......ahem...

Contact the Council and find out whether there has been a Building Regulations Application for these works. Any electrical works require the Building Control Department to be notified.
You ought to be have been notified under the Party Wall Act......your neighbour has no 'rights' to deface your property without your express permission.
See if you can make an appointment with a Solicitor under the 'half an hour free' scheme.

[EDDIE51]

From the question >>
''The front of the flats are painted white as we are in a conservation area''
even the colour of the permitted paint is controlled.
So making unauthorised installations that have allowed water ingress and damage
''the water is now getting in to the inside of my bay window and making it damp ''
Is definitely not going to be allowed!
As I said, the flat owner is deep in the do do !
Ackybear , needs to make an official complaint about unauthorised alterations to a building in a conservation area! It also looks like the electrical work is not up to the official standard either, quite apart from the conservation aspect! again from the question>
''The electrician has not covered the cables and it looks a dreadful mess .This was done whilst I was abroad a few months ago .Last week I came back from a weekend away and I coukd not believe it there is now another cable not armoured running along the same channlel as the other one but at the side of my flat they have put a tall but narrow 8 inches solar panel which may be for a smoke alarm but im not sure ''

[jackthehat]

Quite....BUT.....Full Planning Permission is NOT required.
Conservation Area consent may well be, but Ackybear needs to sort of the damage caused to the property first, rather than the legalities of whether CA ought to have been sought in the first place.

[Zacs-Master]

Eddie, it actually says the front of the flats are painted white AND we are in a conservation area. You've conveniently linked the two things when in fact they could have nothing to do with one another.

[douglas9401]

Sometimes I feel like I'm living in a 4th year essay written by an earnest but bewildered student.

This is one of those times.

[EDDIE51]

^ OK point accepted. But I still think the flat owner is in trouble!

[EDDIE51]

^ That was to Zm !

[Zacs-Master]

I'm sure they are. But not for the reasons you were trying to make.

[Smowball]

I agree in the main with Eddie, but whether it's a conservation area or not I'm pretty sure your neighbours cant go channelling cables under your windows without permission!!

[twix123]

Have you got legal cover included in your household insurance policy, which may enable you take legal action against your neighbour with your insurer's backing?

[Smowball]

And I'd tell them you're taking legal action!

[RobNorth]

Sounds like the sort of wiring one sees when on holiday...

[EDDIE51]

It must be very confusing for a new member who has joined to ask advice, seeing the bickering going on here.
We ALL agree that this work should NOT have been carried out without permission. If that permission is planning consent or conservation order consent is beside the point. It does not have the required permission.
Also electrical work needs to be to the required standards and regulations and it looks pretty obvious that this work is not so.
The advice is, phone your council help desk ,explain the problem, and find the correct way to proceed.
Put in an official complaint, this does not need a solicitor and will not cost you anything.
Come back on here if you need more help.If you tell us where you live I will look up the correct department of your council to deal with this.