If you want to understand how TLERA-led objections to a nursery Planning Application turned into expensive legal action between neighbours, here's how:

First, almost 2 months before the Planning Meeting, here is a Sept 2010 email from Andrew Reid of the TLERA committee to fellow committee members and other 'active' TLERA members with some ideas for a new legal strategy:


  Andrew Reid email to TLERA commitee members 15 Sep 2010 - 2nd para is important_Redacted.pdf (Size: 77.69 KB / Downloads: 514)

In Nov 2010 the nursery successfully received Planning Permission with a large majority of councillors voting in favour. Our happiness was to be shortlived. Just two months later, in Jan 2011, we received a letter from a solicitor, TGBaynes, acting for 3 of our neighbours: our TLERA road reps, the B*s at No. 10; the M*s at No. 7; and the F*s at No. 3.

The first 2 had to drop out of the case because of title-date issues, just leaving the F*s. Here are key excerpts from that letter, where their solicitor answers questions we had posed previously about why it had taken the F*s this amount of time to enforce Restrictive Covenants...and from this letter now we understand who started all the legal action against the nursery (some of you may not be surprised) :


  Excertps from TGBaynes solicitors letters to Mr and Mrs Lee.pdf (Size: 670.02 KB / Downloads: 466)