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  • Our house sale fell through today, essentially due to a developer putting in a planning application to demolish our next door neighbour’s house and replace it with a block of 8 flats.

    He doesn’t own the house, nor does he have an accepted offer on it, but apparently anyone can put in a planning application on a property irrespective of ownership. Which just seems crazy to me.

    We’re now essentially stuck until our neighbour finds a buyer. The house has been on the market for nearly 6 years.

  • Could you not contact the developer to offer your house at a price you want so they can turn the block of 8 flats into a block of say 12 flats?

    That way you get your money and the developer gets his dream side access by knocking your house down?

  • The house under planning permission is detached. Our house is semi-detached, so the developer would have to buy three houses to do that and our (semi-detached) neighbour is very settled and has no desire to move, so it is unlikely.

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