Planning guidance on the impact of nurseries on local amenity in England is rather thin on the ground. However, the Planning Service for Northern Ireland has considered the issue in some depth and their advice can be found here. In this context, it should be noted that the application is for 24 children plus the applicant's own, soon to be, three children, and that the garden is within 2.5 metres of the habitable rooms of both immediate neighbours. Although the property has been extended into the roof, it is basically a three bedroom house. Is the situation in Northern Ireland so very different?