The inevitable objection

So, just as we thought, the neighbour has submitted an objection to our side wall. The most pleasing thing (if there can be anything) was that the objection was submitted well before the deadline. So from a timing perspective we didn't have to wait the full 3 weeks. Despite the shadow diagrams showing absolutely no impact on the neighbour's window she has used her rights to object to us building it - fair enough. She also went one step further and 'put us on notice' that she refuses to grant permission to us replacing any part of the fence! Not sure why this is. It's not a particularly new or well maintained fence and it would be done at our expense. Anyhoo, I think we can avoid any fence replacement and that might cheer her up a bit. Not sure that we're going to be life long friends. I just hope that we can get through this next approval stage and get building. From here we have to wait up to 3 weeks for the Council to review all of the information and hand down their decision. Seems ridiculous that this couldn't have all been done at the same time as our last submission. In the meantime, the builders have been reviewing our tender and we had one builder come and have a look at the place last Friday. They have 2 more weeks before the resulting prices are due. We are hanging on with our finger nails to an October start.