Day 55 - Planning to Deprive Us of Our Peace?

So ... this is the second planning application to be made at the same time, bordering (and adversely affecting) our property. A similar application was made a couple of years ago, which we successfully opposed because the windows facing our property would have meant a loss of privacy and enjoyment of our garden; a second application was put in soon after, with only obscure-glazed windows facing our property, but the application was withdrawn because of the local "clean air initiative" that requires developers to pay £5000 per unit for new build projects. Let me describe to you what they want to do:

This is the view of our garden, taken from our bedroom balcony; it's long(ish) and quite narrow, extending to where you can see our neighbour's timber shed and pergola. His property currently ends there, although he does also own the land and small commercial building behind the wall just beyond these structures. He wants to demolish the building and remove the wall, because ...

... in this garden (right next to our garden, as you can see) he wants to build a terrace of four (yes, FOUR!!) two-storey, two-bedroomed houses (well, boxes!!). He now also wants to build a "coach house" where the current commercial unit is, along with 8 parking spaces for the terrace. You can, perhaps, see how much higher the ground level is on his side of the wall, which means the houses would tower over our garden (and at the nearest point, they would be a little over 2 metres from our wall).

This final photo shows our neighbour's existing 2-storey house and how it is already higher than our boundary wall; this house is built on much, much lower level ground than the proposed houses. The development, if allowed to go ahead, would be unbearable enough in its overbearing height and proximity; but to go from having NO neighbours, as such (we only share a garden wall) to potentially four families living alongside the length of our currently fairly peaceful garden, is just too awful to comprehend.

I'm sorry, but we've had our days of family noise, young children and teenagers ... we partly chose this property for its lack of neighbours (having had some noisy ones in our previous home!!) and to think of the potential noise and disruption that we could have to endure on a daily basis is deeply distressing to me. From nothing - just a relatively peaceful garden - to (possibly) babies crying, children screaming, dogs barking, families shouting/arguing/partying, four lots of TVs/radios/music systems blaring, foot traffic of up to 16 adults and children at all hours of the day and night ... I'm not exaggerating, this is ALL perfectly possible. And all along the length of our current little wildlife haven!!!

Please send out vibes, say a prayer, think positive thoughts or whatever it is you do ... thank you!