Mingus, please do not take this wrong but does your property look like a scrap yard? If so I could possibly see someone arguing loss of visual amenity/detriment to local environment etc.
What is your local councillor like? If your house looks 'reasonable' . and not like an overgrown scrapyard then try to get them on side.
Now one of our local councillor got the planning people/highway department to put rumble strips on a road outside our local cricket club. Now the councillor has been a member of the cricket club for a number of years and his company had a big advertising sign on end of club building. I objected to the traffic calming measures. The grounds I objected on were there had been no accidents/injuries/deaths on that stretch of road which was dead straight, a narrow road (no centre line) and was a national speed limit 60 mph. Now traffic calming is supposed to reduce accidents (can not reduce below zero accidents), reduce traffic speed, improve environment etc.
The cricket club wanted a chicane or speed bumps on a 60 mph straight road with no junctions, no accidents etc on the grounds of safety especially children safety. Slight problem there was that most of the dangers were down to the cricket club. Gate took two guys to close so was left opened rather than repaired. Parking by visitors to CC was appalling, close to entrance ruining sight lines, parking on narrow pavement forcing pedestrians onto a narrowed 60 mph road.
Local councillor got ear ache from cricket club, who got local council to waste money installing a traffic calming system which does not work as most traffic has increased speed to counteract the speed rumble. I know I drive faster down that road due to the rumble strips, and I know where to ease off to change down for the bends at either end without any excessive braking
Planning officers attitude was that they had the legal right to put traffic calming measures in place. I never got an answer for a 'legal justification' for the traffic calming measures such as accident reduction, reducing speed limit, improving environment etc. The other course of reducing speed limit was not cost effective as it could not be readily enforced and no grounds on accident reduction etc.
Now contacting local councillor is a double edged sword. Get them onboard and they might help you but if they have had their ear bent by someone who has complained.........?