Mum in Fife raging after home constructed too near hers

A mum has hit out after a model new dwelling was constructed so near hers she says she will open her rest room window and contact her neighbour’s wall.

Niki Caira, 35, who lives in Fife, Scotland, was left horrified when she first found how shut the brand new dwelling can be constructed to hers.

Fife Council agreed to permit KJJ Properties and businessman Alex Penman to construct the 2 properties price £350,000 regardless of critical issues and objections.

However planning permission was given the go-ahead final 12 months regardless of Niki and her husband Mario rejecting the proposals in 2020.

She has now put an indication exterior her home which reads; ‘How will you get in your again door when our home windows are open? While passing please protect our privateness by not trying in our bathroom window’.

A solicitor for the builders insisted that the 1.3 metre hole between the 2 properties ‘after all exceeds the statutory minimal.’

However Niki says the occasions have additionally precipitated her to lose two stone in weight and he or she is now 6st 11lbs.

She has lived on the dwelling together with her youngsters, husband and mum Mhairi for the previous 16 years.

She stated: ‘I’m hardly consuming, I’m struggling to sleep and I’m simply feeling so anxious about this entire scenario. 

‘I can’t cease fascinated about it and the stress and upheaval is it going to trigger if we have now no selection however to maneuver. I additionally preserve considering that that is going to lower the worth of our property.

‘It’s an eyesore and all we will see once we look out of our home windows.

‘Once I complained about it the builder advised I put up a excessive wall to cover the property. My children would really feel like they have been dwelling in a jail with a 10ft wall surrounding them.

‘We completely beloved our dwelling, however now I simply really feel pressured each time I look out of my home windows. It’s such a disgrace as a result of we have been all so completely satisfied dwelling right here till now.’

She instructed the Every day Document she was even requested by builders to shut her rest room window to permit them to erect a scaffold as there was not sufficient area for them to take action with it opened.

She added: ‘It’s completely disgraceful that this has been allowed to occur. Why did Fife Council approve this utility? I don’t perceive how they’ll suppose that is okay.’

Robert F MacDonald, of Robert F MacDonald Solicitors, who’s performing on behalf of KJJ builders and Alex Penman, stated: ‘We perceive that growth on adjoining land could cause emotions amongst neighbours to run excessive, nonetheless my shopper’s are glad that they’ve complied with all of the related planning and constructing management necessities in respect of the 2 properties that are at the moment being erected at this website.

‘It is a former brown area website which had lain empty for a few years. Mr and Mrs Caira had the chance to participate within the planning course of and so they expressed their views to the planning authority at the moment.

‘Little doubt these have been taken into consideration by the Fife Council in reaching their choice. Mr and Mrs Caira did have the chance to enchantment the planning choice however didn’t accomplish that.

‘Barely unusually, Mr and Mrs Caria’s property is constructed immediately on the boundary between the 2 items of land. All of the constructing work nonetheless has been carried out by my purchasers on floor owned by Mr Penman.

‘There’s enough space between the 2 homes for the scaffolding to be erected, and for entry to repairs to both property in future if required. We perceive that through the course of the scaffolding being erected the scaffolders requested Mrs Caira if a window (which opens over land belonging to our shopper) could possibly be closed barely to allow them to erect the scaffolding.

‘The existence of the scaffolding doesn’t stop Mrs Caira from opening her window. As soon as the work has been accomplished there shall be a 1.3 metre hole between the partitions of the brand new construct and Mr and Mrs Caira’s home, which after all exceeds the statutory minimal.’

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