Dog Daycare centre without planning permission.

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Yoga Woga

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  • we live next door to a dog daycare facility - that is running close to 4 years with no planning permission.
  • we complained over a year ago to the council; the council did very little, we complained again and again and eventually they said they were appointing a 'Fresh' planning officer to review the file.
  • the person who owns the business only registered it in 2022 (not 2020 when it started) it is registered to a different address (original home address of the person)
  • the owner of the property where the dog daycare facility has recently applied for retention planning
  • the business owner and property owner are friends
  • the business owner lives full time at the dog daycare address
  • they have placed the planning notice on a pillar - however the notice almost entirely with hanging ivy....I'm wondering how long to let that go unreported
  • the noise is brutal with barking from 8am monday to friday throughout the day....we work from home, me for over 10 years. it's a built up residential area!!
  • the woman next door to us (semi D) moved out due to the noise and the council sitting on their hands for over a year, she was unwell and couldn't hack it
  • the landlord of next door is currently doing up the house and has said he will complain also, he knows the names of the dogs!!! as he is outside more than us and hears the commotion
  • new local area plan is in draft form which might help?
  • we don't want years of dog barking, it has expanded as it is in terms of numbers and teh noise has increased
  • the further worry is they could expand to boarding kennels
  • I'm hoping planning will be refused, we will of course object..
  • they blocked me on instagram, this was after saying they were looking for new premises...i said it was unfair that they had turned a residential area into a noisy business...and there was zero consultation
  • I have found a couple of cases in other counties on a similar note and these will help...i hope...
Ideas welcome!
 
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I would suggest you look at it from an animal welfare angle as well and whether the premises are suitable for the number of dogs they look after.

Are the dogs exercised on the premises or brought around neighbouring streets/parks, does this cause any issues? If it's not happening at present is it likely to in the future?
 
Do plenty of research, look up your LA's planning portal for examples of similar planning or retention applications. Learn from them how to frame your observations to better target the key issues that planners take notice of. If there are a few neighbours who share your concerns, you could chip in and pay a planning consultant to advise on and formulate your input.

Yoga Woga said:
I must taking decibel readings, haven't done that so far.
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If you want to rely on readings, you would need to engage a professional who has calibrated equipment and knows how to produce suitable evidential records.
 
You could consider reporting it to the ISPCA or Dog warden if you have legitimate grounds for believing the dogs welfare is at risk.
 
Peanuts20 said:
You could consider reporting it to the ISPCA or Dog warden if you have legitimate grounds for believing the dogs welfare is at risk.
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The dogs are very well looked after, that's not the problem; it's a huge site, just a huge site in the middle of lots of homes.
 
Sarah Ryan said:
My neighbour has 3 dogs and they make my ears bleed, embarrassing as well when on meetings and unprofessional sounding. I can't begin to imagine what this must be like for you.
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It's very distracting, you get into a train of thought and then it's a smorgasbord of bark types, could be 20 plus dogs. While i think it's great to see business entrepreneurship (when it was less dogs it was manageable - but with the volume and extra days now, it's too much) it's shoddy the way things have been done vis a vis planning and then registering a business 2 years after it's been set up - speaks volumes, not to mention the ivy that is still 10 days later totally blocking the planning notice..
 
Leo said:
Do plenty of research, look up your LA's planning portal for examples of similar planning or retention applications. Learn from them how to frame your observations to better target the key issues that planners take notice of. If there are a few neighbours who share your concerns, you could chip in and pay a planning consultant to advise on and formulate your input.


If you want to rely on readings, you would need to engage a professional who has calibrated equipment and knows how to produce suitable evidential records.
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That's sage advice, thank you. if people played fair life would be so much easier, here goes another battle!
 
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