Falkirk Council - complaint was against Falkirk Council from the owners of a house (Mr and Mrs C) who were concerned about aspects of their neighbours' rear extension. At that stage, the Council's complaints procedures had not been completed. After considering the Council's response which they received on 26 September 2005, the complainants asked this office to pursue matters on their behalf.
Local Government
The City of Edinburgh Council - complaint was from an applicant for planning permission (Mrs C) who claimed that the City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) had mishandled her application for change of use of a property to form a crèche/nursery which had been refused under delegated powers.
Argyll and Bute Council - complaint was from a woman (referred to in this report as Mrs C) who complained that Argyll and Bute Council had approved a planning application to develop a site adjacent to her home, despite her contention that she would lose privacy and be overlooked.
Scottish Borders Council - complaint was from a man (referred to in this report as Mr C) who complained that Scottish Borders Council (the Council) failed to take his objections into account and had acted unreasonably in granting his neighbour's retrospective application for planning permission for two areas of decking in his rear garden which affected Mr C's privacy.
Perth and Kinross Council
The Ombudsman received a complaint from Mr C alleging that Renfrewshire Council had failed to properly carry out footpath repairs close to his home.
On 5 May 2005 the Ombudsman received a complaint from Mrs C on behalf of her elderly father (Mr F), who is in poor health, about the way in which North Ayrshire Council handled the sale of his council house.
The complaint related to West Dunbartonshire Council’s handling of representations about unauthorised timber decking erected by the complainant’s neighbours in the rear garden of their adjoining semi-detached property.
The complainant is the former owner of a substantial detached house and farm steading buildings in a rural part of the Council’s area. Prior to marketing his property, Mr C commissioned an architectural practice to obtain planning consent on his behalf for demolition of some existing buildings and residential development in the farm courtyard area. The complaint made by The Practice on Mr C’s behalf is that salient information was omitted in a written response to a pre-application planning enquiry and that Mr C incurred substantial abortive costs in design fees and that the planning application fee was also lost when Mr C decided that the application should be withdrawn.
This complaint was received from the tenant of an East Ayrshire Council house in Kilmarnock (Mr L). Mr L was aggrieved about the Council’s actions as housing authority, in intimating to him that they intended to raise proceedings to recover possession of his home on grounds of his prolonged absence without their prior permission.