RE: Re: Waaayyyyy OT: Planning permission

["Rob Mouser" <rmouser@xxxxxxx>]

""My main concern would be how sound would travel.
""

I find our 1m thick walls help with that :-)

Many thanks

Rob Mouser



-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Powell [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 26 October 2002 12:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Waaayyyyy OT: Planning permission


--- In ukha_d@y..., "BUTLER, Tony, FM" <roaming@f...>
wrote:

> I know I can't say for sure, I was just kinda looking for an
opinion - would
> _you_ be put off a 'semi' because the only thing separating it
from
being a
> terraced house is 6" of space?  I think I would be.
> (Leave aside for now whether you would want a semi at all - we all
want self
> builds in the middle of nowhere, fully automated & with a T1
internet
> connection!)

Speaking from my current experiences (house hunting , looking to move 
back to UK), I would personally not even consider a house that said 
it was a semi but only had a 6" gap between it and the next house.
This sort of thing is very common in Holland where so called detached 
houses are 6" apart on either side. That's why we spent a bit more,
our nearest neighbour's house is 15m away (although the boundary and 
hence garden is closer)..

My main concern would be how sound would travel. 

Of course this could just be the snob in me... but I like my privacy, 
I like to somtimes jack the volume right up when watching an action 
movie etc, the last thing I'd want is a neighbour knocking on the 
front door asking me to turn it down...

I would have thought (not a lawyer blah blah) that a reduction in the 
value of your property would be a good enuff reason to object. Have 
you talked to your neighbour about it? 

Probaby all irrelavant anyho.. but there you go... Scotland is 
looking more and more attractive in terms of value for money and 
getting a bit of distance between neighbours... 

Of course me moving into an area will cause house prices to drop 
anyway :P but there you go...

Andy





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