Hi all,
My neighbour came to me recently with sketches of a double extension he wants to build onto the back of his house.
We live in a terrace of four, his is an end house, mine second from the end. His plan is for a two-storey extension the full height and width of the back of his house (his sketch has the outer walls running right up to the boundary - the separation is not specified) and extending 3.3m into his back garden. My rear garden is 4.6m X 11m long. His, due to his side entrance, is about a metre wider.
I've been thinking it over and looking at the plans I'm going to have a very large expanse of flank wall right next to me, and have a significantly darkened kitchen. A couple of years ago my other neighbour extended his kitchen (planning exempt) with a lean-too roof running almost to their toilet window cill. I feel as tho' when this other one is done my back garden will feel more like a handball alley.
My queries are:
1. Is there any kind of minimum separation required between such an extension and the boundary?
2. My house lies south of his: does the 45-degree rule apply here? I read that this rule can be applied to "daylight" as well as "sunlight" (his proposal fails this test both horizontally and vertically).
I feel like a right nuisance but if I don't object I know I'll have a long time to regret it, and I don't know whether he's chancing his arm to see what I'll let him away with.
My neighbour came to me recently with sketches of a double extension he wants to build onto the back of his house.
We live in a terrace of four, his is an end house, mine second from the end. His plan is for a two-storey extension the full height and width of the back of his house (his sketch has the outer walls running right up to the boundary - the separation is not specified) and extending 3.3m into his back garden. My rear garden is 4.6m X 11m long. His, due to his side entrance, is about a metre wider.
I've been thinking it over and looking at the plans I'm going to have a very large expanse of flank wall right next to me, and have a significantly darkened kitchen. A couple of years ago my other neighbour extended his kitchen (planning exempt) with a lean-too roof running almost to their toilet window cill. I feel as tho' when this other one is done my back garden will feel more like a handball alley.
My queries are:
1. Is there any kind of minimum separation required between such an extension and the boundary?
2. My house lies south of his: does the 45-degree rule apply here? I read that this rule can be applied to "daylight" as well as "sunlight" (his proposal fails this test both horizontally and vertically).
I feel like a right nuisance but if I don't object I know I'll have a long time to regret it, and I don't know whether he's chancing his arm to see what I'll let him away with.
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