planning application

[lev4itt]

we have currently received a note of planning to put up 13 houses behind where we live in a old farm tractor yard that is currently still used we are a small village and we are getting developed from all directions. The facilities of the village cannot cope with all this excess building. We have a old boundry wall that at the moment seperates us from the yard as far as we no we are just to maintain the wall but we fear and all neighbours that this wall will be taken down this is the character of our gardens.Also there are bats that use the old farm buildings i thought they were protected, do you think we have any chance of stoppin this building we tried a petition last year as we new of this proposed planning and more but we have had no reply from the planning department .

[ursula62]

If there  are bats in the buildings then you should notify the local council of this when you object, as all UK species of bats are protected.

English Nature should be notified as well.

For details on Bat legislation in the UK you can search the web.  This page is useful: http://www.batsinbeds.org/law.htm

[sandbach99]

Have a word with your local and parish councillors, go to the local council planning department and ask to speak to a planning officer, see what their views are, write in a letter of objection giving clear reasons for your objection, loss of view or depreciation of your property do not count.  Contact groups like English Heritage, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England [cpre], any Wildlife groups.  Good luck 

[Hgrove]

What do you mean by note of planning?  If the Planning Department are informing you that someone has applied for planning permission, then you and as many people as possible should wite back objecting that the develoment is out of keeping with the area and would change the nature of the area from rural to town-like, and it will interfere with your peaceful enjoyment of your own properties.  If planning permission has already been given, I don't think it looks good, but I don't know.  Bear in mind that the more they build, the less you can use the argument that a development threatens to change the nature of the area, so it is best to nip it in the bud if at all possible.  Problem is, if Local Authority refuse permit, developers can have decision judicially reviewed.  Someone I know who is a local councillor where I live, told me it happens round here too.