Neighbours living near a property considered 'too close' to other houses have been advised to 'use blinds' if they are worried. The application, for a two-and-a-half storey house in a plot behind an existing house was up at the planning committee for a second time after previously being deferred amid confusion over the location of a window in the neighbour’s study.
Objections had been lodged by people living in the vicinity of the plot. One neighbour ,claimed at the earlier committee that officers had failed to consider the outlook from a study that had been built some years ago above their garage.
Other objections related to the loss of mature trees as part of the Sefton development and amid disputes over a driveway including in the plans that was claimed to encroach on neighbour's land. After the application was deferred for planning officers to reconsider the plans, a report produced ahead of the meeting acknowledged that the study was indeed a habitable room and the planned development would be over 9m closer than planning recommendations to the study’s window, Liverpool Echo reports.
