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Hi,
My wife and I moved house back end of last year and we're trying to get some pretty major renovation work carried out. The property we live in is a leasehold where the Council own the freehold. We've hit a bit of a stumbling block trying to get permission to move the kitchen from the top floor down to the bottom floor, basically the council is refusing to give freeholder's consent to move the kitchen, as they reckon that there could be a risk of flooding the downstairs neighbour and also noise pollution from the appliances etc.
Our architect has been arguing our case over email (basically the angle he is coming from is that if we put in some heavy duty sound proofing and flood protection, then there should be no issues with noise pollution or flooding), however the council are being pretty unreasonable and are simply flatly refusing to even have a discussion on the matter.
Looks like we might have to go to appeal, which is not ideal as we originally wanted to try and get all the works done by xmas (looking very unlikely now
). Has anyone else ever had any dealings like this with the council? Any advice on how we can try and get this sorted out?
Any advice would be much appreciated,
Cheers,
Fred
My wife and I moved house back end of last year and we're trying to get some pretty major renovation work carried out. The property we live in is a leasehold where the Council own the freehold. We've hit a bit of a stumbling block trying to get permission to move the kitchen from the top floor down to the bottom floor, basically the council is refusing to give freeholder's consent to move the kitchen, as they reckon that there could be a risk of flooding the downstairs neighbour and also noise pollution from the appliances etc.
Our architect has been arguing our case over email (basically the angle he is coming from is that if we put in some heavy duty sound proofing and flood protection, then there should be no issues with noise pollution or flooding), however the council are being pretty unreasonable and are simply flatly refusing to even have a discussion on the matter.
Looks like we might have to go to appeal, which is not ideal as we originally wanted to try and get all the works done by xmas (looking very unlikely now
). Has anyone else ever had any dealings like this with the council? Any advice on how we can try and get this sorted out?Any advice would be much appreciated,
Cheers,
Fred
