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Building at old liphook coachworks site - Kirsty Butson (9th Jul 2005 - 16:19:40) I live at Harris Court, Station road next to the 'old coach works' site, where as you know they are planning to build appartments and houses. They are proposing to build within the 3m boundary of my flat which will affect the foundations. They served me notice of 14days giving me the option of agreeing to this or finding an independent surveyor. My flat is the ground floor and I am waiting for a reply from the property agency who owns the top floor flat and are also the freeholders, with their decision. In the meantime on the 14th day I received a letter stating I now needed to find a surveyor or in 10 days they would find one for me. > > Has anyone got any thoughts about this as this situation appears to be grossly unfair?? Thank you for any advice >

Re: Building at old liphook coachworks site - Chris (10th Jul 2005 - 07:10:08) Do you own or rent? If you own the leasehold then act quickly (perhaps with the help of other leaseholders)and get a surveyor to check the potential extent of the encroachment. They have to build according to regulations and if you and the other leaseholders can prove that their plans will adversely affect you, you should appeal. The more people that protest the better the chances. Where I use to live, there was a plan to demolish and then rebuld and extend an existing housing association block upwards by one level and outwards to the boundary of the estate, affecting the foundations, not to mention view, of several adjacent houses. After organised protest and appeal, the company was forced to rethink its options, build lower and within smaller confines. If you don't act on the warning they have given you NOW, independantly or en masse, then you will forfeit any chance of forcing a rethink. EHDC would probably be able to advise you on a course of action but without proof you may not have a case.

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