Hello people,
my new neighbour (a local campsite) has recently purchased the land adjoining our property. Forested for the 20 years we’ve lived here, the campsite has cleared the majority of the trees and installed several mobile homes which look directly into our garden. The land is non-constructible, the closest mobile home is 1.2m from our boundary and it has five windows with a clear view of our swimming pool and summer kitchen.
I understand this could be illegal, but other than writing to the Mairie and the landowner (neither seem to care), I’m a little lost.
I wish for a little advice on how to pursue a legal case for loss of privacy and loss of view. Ideally, I’d like advice on how to find a good local lawyer who can fight the case and have the mobile homes moved well away from our property line.
That sounds awful Paul, and I really sympathise, my recent purchase of a piece of designated forest adjoining my land was prompted by another parcelle beyond being felled for timber. I’ve been trying for over a year to buy an even larger forest connected to it but without success, the owner lives in faraway Paris.
I would think that complaining to the Marie would be the first step after consulting the local development plan which will also be available for viewing at the Marie. If the zoning is inconsistent with the development, and the Marie still won’t act, then a letter to the Prefect would seem to be in order. Recorded delivery with notice of reception of course.
Yes, write to the Maire in the first instance , send LRAR and they will be obliged to reply. Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to mention its been copied to the préfecture too.
Ideally, you would want someone competent who can plead the case before the local competent court of where you live. Unfortunately, that might turn out to be a set of antagonistic parameters, depending on where you live, and whether or not the person in question does this kind of thing for their bread and butter which might also be quite rare.
Otherwise, you can go for an avocat from a large city, who would then domicile themselves with a local firm for the purposes of making any pleadings at the court of first instance, but obviously, you might well end up paying more for the pleasure.
You could try searching with Google for “avocat droit de la construction xx” where xx represents the number of your department.
