Recent content by Geronimoe

Just an update on my fence debacle. Council Planning Enforcement Officer not budging from his stance and given me 28 days to reduce my fence to 1.650m high or enforcement action may be taken. Who should i appoint to sort this out. Do i need a Chartered Surveyor or Solicitor who deals in planning...

Obviously, and logically - the measurement must be taken from the low side, because if one side, was 2m higher than the other, then the higher side would then not be allowed any fence at all, which would be nonsensical. Did you mean the high side ??

The 1.650m comes from planning officer measuring down the side of my retaining wall to neighbours lower ground level which makes the retaining wall 350mm high at the point he measured. i am the higher garden and the retaining wall and fence belong to my property. This is the main issue of where...

More than happy to reduce fence height by 150mm to 2 metres but still comes back to where should the fence be measured from. At 1.650m which i have been told to drop it to both myself and neighbour have no privacy as my garden slopes up from fence. You would think something as regular as a...

Just had an idea and wonder if this would satisfy the planning officer. If i measure from my upper neighbours ground level nearest me to my lower neighbours ground level furthest away wouldn,t that give me the natural ground level ?

No deception going on as nothing has been changed in the 22 years i have been here and like i stated have records going back to 1978 showing retaining wall height is unchanged.

Yes i do believe that retaining wall is actually artificially lower than original ground as both top and bottom of garden are higher and neighbours garden at the back is same height as my garden. Now who do i appoint to confirm or deny this and argue the point with planning as he is not...

So the disagreement about where to measure height of fence comes down to original ground before the house was built. Is that correct ? I have a drawing in the deeds from 1978 which shows the retaining wall and its height which isn't much help then.

Yes makes sense but still struggling to find this interpretation in the planning rules and would love to be guided to where it covers this. As the planning officer was using and quoted me the Regs which covers (building or plant or machinery) which then goes on to state (the level of the...

Lovely sentiment and i wish it was possible but raising of the fence has its reasons and privacy without being recorded in my own garden is one among numerous other issues i wouldn't be able to discuss in an open forum. Thought this forum was about planning and Building Regulations and not...

No fence panels just one structure all shiplap cladding

I have had on objection to my fence lodged with the council. The planning officer didn't name who had objected to the fence but as it only affects one side (Hmmm)

Yes that is Yes that is an option i will take but would prefer to raise fence height if possible. And this is the problem Planning officer has told me to drop my new section of fence to original height of 1.650 metres as he measured down side of retaining wall to neighbours ground height If you...

Hiya All. Have a problem with my rear garden fence which hoping someone cleverer than me can answer. I live on a hillside in a 1960,s Bungalow and all the houses have a retaining wall running down a rectangular garden. If i measure from bottom and the top of the garden to original ground level...

Hiya all, Does anyone know if its possible to program these alarms on a time basis without manually having to do it ( ie: at 11pm part arm the system and disarm at 6am ) Keep forgetting to set mine at night and had an attempted break in last week which has shown i need to not forget. Alarm is...