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General: Permitted Dev Rights vs Planning permission for Solar PV

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    • CommentAuthorCWatters
    • CommentTimeAug 26th 2010 edited
     
    I guess one thing to watch out for is "nuisance". If your panels were to reflect sunlight into their house or garden in such a way that it could be said to be a legal nuisance then they might be able to get you to remove them even if you have planning permission. I think this is very unlikely though.
    • CommentAuthorseanie
    • CommentTimeAug 26th 2010
     
    And if your panels are reflecting sunlight into his house or garden there's something seriously wrong with your installation.

    Counter-sue for emotional distress due to unreasonable demands for money.

    I reckon £100K should cover it.
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      CommentAuthorDamonHD
    • CommentTimeAug 26th 2010 edited
     
    A very famous story about Private Eye springs to mind (quote from Wikipedia):



    An unlikely piece of British legal history occurred in the case Arkell v. Pressdram (1971). The plaintiff was the subject of an article relating to illicit payments, and the magazine had ample evidence to back up the article. Arkell's lawyers wrote a letter which concluded: "His attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply". The magazine's response was, in full: "We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr J. Arkell. We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off."



    Rgds

    Damon
    • CommentAuthorGavin_A
    • CommentTimeAug 26th 2010
     
    1 - invite them round for a cup of tea and try the civil approach.
    2 - if this doesn't work, point out that there's a recession on, the bottom's fallen out of the housing market, and that this is a much more likely cause of any drop in value of their house than you installing solar panels, so maybe they might want to try suing 'the man' instead for causing the recession.
    3 - If all else fails, point them in the direction of the relevant regulations and point out that if they did take you to court that the most likely result would be that they would be left having to cover your legal costs because you are so obviously within your rights to have installed these panels.


    that's presuming that your installer hasn't bodged it and made your roof look like an angry kid's chucked his mechano at it in disgust of course... a photo would really help tbh.
    • CommentAuthorCWatters
    • CommentTimeAug 26th 2010
     
    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: seanie</cite>And if your panels are reflecting sunlight into his house or garden there's something seriously wrong with your installation. </blockquote>

    Seems to be rare but it does happen and some of the installations don't look obviously wrong....

    http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Going-Green-Makes-Neighbors-Go-Blind-101009229.html

    http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-balboa-solar-panels,0,4134832.story
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeAug 27th 2010
     
    How big is their mortgage? sounds like the repo man is knocking at their door. They will not be there long.

    Have they actually had a solicitor contact you yet?
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    Tell him that living near people like him is seriously affecting your property value.
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      CommentAuthorDamonHD
    • CommentTimeAug 28th 2010
     
    Here's another word for you: "barratry".

    Rgds

    Damon
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      CommentAuthorted
    • CommentTimeAug 28th 2010
     
    Tell him he can get the £50k back by simply installing some PV on his roof.
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeAug 29th 2010
     
    Good move Ted:bigsmile:
    • CommentAuthorveckie
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2012
     
    Just to let you know that these neighbours have jsut had PV installed onto their roof.
    • CommentAuthorEd Davies
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2012
     
    :clap:

    But do tell us if anything else happened with the planners, etc.
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    And have you pointed out that, had they done so last year, they'd have got more than twice the income?
    • CommentAuthorGavin_A
    • CommentTimeAug 4th 2012
     
    but paid not far off twice as much for it.
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    At the end of last year? Wasn't 4kW down to about £10 - 11,000 then?
    • CommentAuthorGavin_A
    • CommentTimeAug 5th 2012
     
    yep, and £6-6.5k now at the bottom end.

    The ones who made the best returns are those who managed to buy in February after the big round of price reductions to reflect the 21p rate, but actually got 43.3p due to government's illegal actions in October-Dec. Some of those returns are ridiculously high.
    • CommentAuthordjh
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2012
     
    Posted By: Gavin_AThe ones who made the best returns are those who managed to buy in February after the big round of price reductions to reflect the 21p rate

    Something's wrong with the market if a change in the subsidy affects the price!

    Somebody in the supply chain is collecting monopolistic rents. Who is it? Manufacturers, distributors, installers?
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2012 edited
     
    Posted By: djhSomething's wrong with the market if a change in the subsidy affects the price!

    Or in the buyers mind. Is it that the general public do not understand what an investment actually is, compared to a speculation.
    You invest in the PV kit because you speculate on the rate of return that is affected (or is it effected) by the future cost of energy, property values, inflation (or deflation), bank/saving rates, how long you will live/stay in property etc.
    • CommentAuthordjh
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2012
     
    Posted By: SteamyTeaOr in the buyers mind.

    No, you just described how the sellers extort the monopoly rents.

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