Local were left baffled after they received enforcement notices from the council over the height of their fences.
Horrified homeowners are being threatened with court action by a council if they do not reduce the height of their fences. Locals in Lliswerry, Newport, began receiving enforcement notices from the city council last year after one resident had a lengthy battle with the authority over the size of her fence.
Little did she know that Corinne Winslett, who lived around the corner, was already having her own problems with the council over her fence, which led the council to investigate other almost identical fences having gone up in Lliswerry. Four people have now been handed enforcement notices and some of them insist they will be taking the "farcical" situation to court at a time where the local authority is hiking Council Tax charges.
The council has sent Angela a plan of what she needs to do to avoid court action which includes knocking down the fence and rebuilding it to around half its size, which will likely come with a hefty cost. She said: “Where on earth am I going to get the money from?” Another woman Lianne Garnett who's been told to remove her fence says taking it down will leave her with no privacy in her garden. Part of her fence, which was built by the previous owners in 2016 was rotting so she replaced it in 2019 with a composite fence which stretches a few metres at most.
"We are talking about a time where the council can't empty people's bins every couple of weeks but they are prepared to spend money taking action in this way against people with fences that are attracting very few complaints. It's a case of what the council sees as its priorities."
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