Stables - Planning Objections? Advice please.

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So the neighbours are objecting to my planning application to put in stables on the basis that it will result in vermin, flies, smell from muck heap, noise, dust from horsewalker and spoil their view. They are worried that their children will get Weil's disease and that their cats will get poisoned by the rat poison that I will lay (for the hordes of rats which I will allow to infest my stables, eye roll). All of this will, they feel, devalue their property.

I have addressed all these points, particularly the one about Weil's disease (which is bogus as the bacteria is aquatic therefore you can't have transmission without water of which there is none). The muck heap is sited 400m away in the middle of the field. The stables do not spoil their view and are not in fact going to be in their eye line whatsoever.

In addition, the site was, until fairly recently when I cleared it, a complete dumping ground, full of broken glass, scrap metal, old burned furniture etc... See photo of cleared waste:-

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So I'm surprised they think that clearing it up to make a smart set of stables is going devalue their property more...

Can anyone tell me if their objections will have any bearing on the planning decision?
 
kit279 said:
So the neighbours are objecting to my planning application to put in stables on the basis that it will result in vermin, flies, smell from muck heap, noise, dust from horsewalker and spoil their view. They are worried that their children will get Weil's disease and that their cats will get poisoned by the rat poison that I will lay (for the hordes of rats which I will allow to infest my stables, eye roll). All of this will, they feel, devalue their property.

I have addressed all these points, particularly the one about Weil's disease (which is bogus as the bacteria is aquatic therefore you can't have transmission without water of which there is none). The muck heap is sited 400m away in the middle of the field. The stables do not spoil their view and are not in fact going to be in their eye line whatsoever.

In addition, the site was, until fairly recently when I cleared it, a complete dumping ground, full of broken glass, scrap metal, old burned furniture etc... See photo of cleared waste:-

CIMG1613.jpg


So I'm surprised they think that clearing it up to make a smart set of stables is going devalue their property more...

Can anyone tell me if their objections will have any bearing on the planning decision?
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get someone to start a rumour that the travelers are intrested in it !!!!!:D
 
Kit279, is it the only objection you got? If so, I wouldn't worry much about it. If there is no more than 3 objections, the planning decision is left with planning officer, anything above that and it normally goes to the committee, and that's when the real trouble starts...
 
I think they are clutching at straws tbh, none of those objections can't be defended satisfactorily.
 
They sound delightful neighbours! Is their house the one on the hill behind, or the roof just over the fence? If its right next to where you are building they may have a stronger case. Perhaps then you could re site the stables to another part of the field?

Start compiling a counter list of what you will be doing to avoid all the above things.

Ie, walled muckheap that will be removed regularly (get quote from a local farmer to prove it..

Find the specification from a horsewalker company - Ie how little noise they will give out. Prove that the surface won't be dusty.

Add the findings you have re Weil's disease to this list.

Add that you will be planting trees around the stables to improve the field. Give before and after photos of the site (hopefully you took some when the rubbish was tipped all over the field).

When I was building my stable yard I had problems with the planning dept, who said that stables would spoil the greenbelt! I applied for six stables, and was granted two. I told them that I hoped to make the stable yard as beautiful as possible, with trees etc around it, but if I didn't get planning permission I would be buying four old lorries to keep my horses in - which really would spoil the valley, but wouldn't need planning permission... In the end they compromised and gave me four. Perhaps you could mentions something like this to your neighbours - say that you'd like to do this as nicely as possible, but you'd have to go down a much more "eyesore" route with temp buildings if not... By the way, we added two portable stables to out yard a year later, and nobody even noticed!
 
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