Neighbours requested time constraint.

[noseall]

a lot of it will be carried out as diy

Holy fekking moley!

Imagine living next door to a DIY bodger banging about for the next 10 years.

Sounds like hell.

for a reasonable amount of time that it takes you to DIY a loft conversion.

Lol.

 

[^woody^]

Imagine living next door to a DIY bodger banging about for the next 10 years.

Hi.

 

[Leofric]

It would depend on the level of noise as to whether it could be considered a nuisance to the neighbours.

- still seems to be the relevant point to me

 

[sparkwright]

I don't know if this is a noise issue, or a privacy issue.

Your neighbours may be nudists.

Keeping noise to a minimum at weekends would impossible, there's always going to be a noisy job.

I wonder if your neighbours won't be doing anything noisy - such as mowing the grass, trimming the hedge, DIY, having a party etc.

You could point out that by not doing any work at the weekends will mean your conversion will take considerably longer - meaning they will have to put up with the eyesore of your work in progress, and parked vans, for much longer.

 

[Screech20]

Holy fekking moley!

Imagine living next door to a DIY bodger banging about for the next 10 years.

Sounds like hell.

Lol.

Bearing in mind this is a DIY forum, could you please Justify your comment.

 

[noseall]

Justify your comment.

Pro's do their work whilst a majority of folk are out at work. Diy-ers do theirs at the most annoying times of the day. To think a majority of lofty is going to be done DIY sends a shiver down my spine.

Please tell me you are detached?

 

[paulrockliffe]

Bearing in mind this is a DIY forum, could you please Justify your comment.

Quite. I've got two young children and have managed mine on my own in about 11 months just working weekends and holidays.

If the conversion is simple then most of the work is internal and indistinguishable from normal DIY tasks if the Council ask. Just tell them you were putting up some shelves, what are they going to do? If you have dormers, you can build these in the loft and have them fitted covered and slated in a few days, so won't really impact the neighbour. Think ours took three days from smashing the roof open to dropping the scaffold.

If you live in a detached house I doubt neighbours would notice you most of the time anyway.

As it happens my Council put a condition on ours that prohibited any weekend working and the same for other applications in the area, so it does happen. I just figured it wasn't enforceable as they can't gather any evidence that any noise etc is in connection with the planning permission and that they wouldn't try as I've seen them fail to enforce against a stack of proper conditions on a site opposite; things like reducing ground levels around protected trees that left roots exposed next the highway, slam dunk breaches that they were made aware of.

I would object to the condition and if it's put in ignore it. I'd expect that such conditions aren't added at neighbour's request but by the independent judgement of those involved.

 

[Screech20]

Sorry I’m just struggling to understand how your comments help my query.

 

[mattylad]

Simple, don't worry about it - just get on with it and do the job.

 

[^woody^]

Please tell me you are detached?

Yeah, wifey left because of all the constant DIY.

 

[Screech20]

Thank you to those of you who gave me useful help and comments.

I phoned the council today to discuss but they said it’s too late as the decision has been made.

I quote “no hours of construction condition is recommended in this case”

Happy days!!!

 

[geraldthehamster]

Is your house semi-detached, and does the work involve a party wall, for example the insertion of steels? If so, notification to the neighbour under the Party Wall Act is required. Stipulations for hours of work are sometimes included in the conditions of Party Wall awards. This is quite separate from planning.

 

[noseall]

Yeah, wifey left because of all the constant DIY.

Understandable. Obsessed DIY-ers who want to work late into the night, rarely make good partners. Most lie when trying to attract a mate.