Hi folks,
I live in a two bed terraced house. Noise travels easily between houses especially upstairs for some reason e,g. I'm awoken in the morning by the swishing of neighbours curtains (it's almost like there's just a plasterboard wall between us even though it's a solid block wall). Next door neighbour, who lives in house and rents the spare room, has applied for planning to create a dormer room in the attic (dormer windows to the rear and roof windows to the front). The attic space is very small and so a dormer would be a clever way of extending the attic floor area out. On the DCC website there is a Planning Ref # but no documents/plans to view yet. I have four concerns:
Thanks
I live in a two bed terraced house. Noise travels easily between houses especially upstairs for some reason e,g. I'm awoken in the morning by the swishing of neighbours curtains (it's almost like there's just a plasterboard wall between us even though it's a solid block wall). Next door neighbour, who lives in house and rents the spare room, has applied for planning to create a dormer room in the attic (dormer windows to the rear and roof windows to the front). The attic space is very small and so a dormer would be a clever way of extending the attic floor area out. On the DCC website there is a Planning Ref # but no documents/plans to view yet. I have four concerns:
- Noise travelling across and down into my two bedrooms.
- I have a small lean-to extension to the rear with Velux rooflights. If I have visitors this is the place I like to entertain them. I would not like a dormer extension to my neighbours house overlooking the rooflights of my extension.
- Neighbours planning application mentions repositioning of the existing chimney at the rear. Current position is next to his other neighbour so if he's only moving it a little then that doesn't affect me. However, it all depends on where the new chimney will be.
- Roof windows to the front would be out of character with rest of houses on road. However, this would not cause me to object.
Thanks