Planning Permission Refused

WestonDave

The other route I've seen taken to get around this - not sure whether it is strictly legal or not, is to put the fence a metre back from the boundary. OK so you lose some garden but if the priority is privacy then it might be worth exploring if its the boundary height issue as opposed to covenant permission issues.

hazybubbles

WestonDave wrote: »

The other route I've seen taken to get around this - not sure whether it is strictly legal or not, is to put the fence a metre back from the boundary.

This is ok I think. We wrote to the council asking to put up a bigger fence around part of our front garden as it is a large corner plot and would have liked to make some of it private. They wrote back saying fine as long as it was not within 2 metres of the road and drew us a ridiculous little diagram of how we could put it legally.....meaning half our garden would be on the outside of the fence :doh:

iamcornholio

Just put the fence up and see what happens.

If anyone complains and the council gets involved, drag it out, appeal, and take it as far as possible without spending any money and see how far the planners are prepared to go and how much money they are prepared to waste on it.

When you see some of the ludicrous decisions planners make, and then see the number of individuals and developers get away with building without permission, and planners not taking any enforcement action on those who deviate significantly from approved plans ..... then it certainly puts "a fence around the front garden" in context

musicmaker29

iamcornholio wrote: »

Just put the fence up and see what happens.

If anyone complains and the council gets involved, drag it out, appeal, and take it as far as possible without spending any money and see how far the planners are prepared to go and how much money they are prepared to waste on it.

When you see some of the ludicrous decisions planners make, and then see the number of individuals and developers get away with building without permission, and planners not taking any enforcement action on those who deviate significantly from approved plans ..... then it certainly puts "a fence around the front garden" in context

its even worse than you could possibly imagine, the most soul destroying job Ive ever done. pathetic jumped up unqualified people (enforcement officers, not necessarily the planners) applying the law with no regard for its intent and the whole time terrified of elected councillors. It really is a joke.