Fence adjacent to highway

[joe90]

@Barking99, you keep saying you disagree with the planners so your only course of action, that I and others have said is to appeal, that’s why the appeal procedure exists. You can argue with the planners till the cows come home but that will do no good. Drag it out as long as possible, go to appeal and by that time the hedge will have grown. I have fought planners a few times as their rules are often grey areas open to interpretation so don’t get me wrong they can be a nightmare. If you do go to appeal and win (and I find the appeal officers are far more practical than planners) you can give them the bird 🖕

[ProDave]

+1 to the above.

 

My personal favourite appeal was 3 houses ago wanting to build a garage described as "concrete block and render"  Refused by the council.  Trying to discuss with the planning officer all I got was "even if you render it, it will still look like a prefabricated garage" and no amount of explaining would persuade them this was not a prefab garage.

 

I won on appeal.  In that case I thought that planning officer was not best suited for the job.

[DevilDamo]

I agree with @joe90. You (the OP) are aggravated and disagree with the LPA’s determination and you also disagree with a lot of the comments made by BH members. Because of that, Appeal as it’s your only chance in retaining the boundary treatment.

[twice round the block]

On 24/09/2023 at 14:31, Barking99 said:

We self built the house and part of the  landscaping conditions on that PP were to replace the overgrown poor condition hedge that was previously there with a native hedge. So there are conditions there that a hedge has to be retained.

That is not a native hedge.

 

Instant hedging do mature native hedging, that is in meter lengths and any height you need, depending on how deep your pocket is.

 

or

 

Erect heras fencing between your hedge and existing fence and put a day-glo blue wrap on it and see what they say then.

[Tommo72]

On 23/09/2023 at 20:52, Barking99 said:

Good evening all

 

I recently had planning permission refused for a 1.7m fence next to a highway.
My house is a corner plot and it is the back garden I have put a 1.7m fence around. I have planted hedging ( planted for a year) in front of the fence within my boundary and the fence will be hidden within a year or two. The hedge not the fence is adjacent to the highway. Then a 2 metres grass verge and then footpath.

 

I cannot understand the reasoning for the refusal (visual amenity) as you won’t see the fence given time. So surely this can’t be justified. Nobody objected to the fence.

 

If the hedge was fully grown and denser and then I put up the fence would I of needed planning permission? 

We are going to appeal but any thoughts would be greatly appreciated 

Thanks

 

 

Hi mate, 

 

Been following this up and guess what lol, we have the same issue and our retrospective planning got refused and we are now considering appealing.

 

How did you get on with your appeal - fingers crossed you won?  What did you use to convince the appeals inspectorate about your fence?

 

Ours is very similar to yours but 2m height- cherry laurels at the front are way smaller though, 45cm max and we are now thinking of appealing?

 

Any tips/pointers would be mega appreciated.

 

Cheers,

Tom