This sort of example shows to me just how inconsiderate many people are, and frankly how they don’t give a hoot about others’ feelings.
It’s almost like something out of a Wild West territorial dispute.
Objectively the proposed building looks reasonably attractive, but for me the concern would be that it’s a 3 tier construction perhaps mitigated a little by the flat roof.
If they wanted a large single storey garage/granny flat/office at the rear of the property you still might not like it, but it would be far more reasonable.
Both of my neighbours have moved in during the last 5-6 years and have mooted multiple plans for extensions.
Chap on the left is DIY mad, always driling/banging at all hours and has extended the rear already. He’s also an architect so probably knows what he can get away with.
Scaffolding appeared in January out of the blue and I was convinced he was going to do a horrendous loft extension as he’s mentioned this before.
This really upset me as we’ve had years of noise since he’s renovated the place, and I often work from home in the week, and rarely a week goes by when there isn’t some contractor or other doing noisy work there.
As it happened it was just a log burner installation, but it would have been nice to have had a ‘heads up’ as workmen would have been able to see into our upstairs rooms from the scaffolding. I asked him if he had considered re-pointing the shared chimney while the scaffolding was up, as I’d have considered paying for it myself or sharing and contributing to his scaffolding costs but he wasn’t interested.
I have an old stone wall between my garden and neighbours either side. Chap on the left mentioned he was going to rebuild the garage which would involve dismantling the far end of the stone wall and would I mind this being brick - I said it was a shared wall and I didn’t want it changed at all as it would change the character of the garden wall on my side as I have shrubbery adjoining his existing garage which comes up to but is not part of the stone wall.
He can’t do much for a few weeks I suspect but am not relishing the arguments to come.
He seems to dislike the sun and I have several mature trees/shrubs which partly overhang his garden - they have overgrown and I’ve not had time to get to grips with them, but when I last mentioned if he wanted them cut back he said they provided nice shade for his garden. Last summer his parents cam to stay and attacked our growth with gusto without asking - I’m aware that they are allowed to cut back overhanging material, but they went further leaning over the wall cutting branches back well within our side of the property - one of those trees has now died and blown over and made a rather nice secluded part of our garden where we often sat on a bench quite open to view.
