Planning

Save our school shed – the planners want to tear it down

This story in today’s Trumpet of Truth (South Wales Echo) is about a nursery school in Penarth, South Wales, who use the cabin as an extra classroom for the tots are being told to tear it down by Vale of Glamorgan Council. CHILDREN have launched a campaign to save their nursery’s play cabin after planners… Continue reading Save our school shed – the planners want to tear it down

It’s just not the UK sheddies who have planning issues

The TimesArgus reports A Montpelier restaurateur whose home overlooks Berlin Pond has been told to move the ornate “garden shed” that he “inadvertently” built on city property about 50 feet from water’s edge earlier this year. The request to Philip Gentile to move the shed that he mistakenly built on Montpelier property back in May… Continue reading It’s just not the UK sheddies who have planning issues

Boris Johnston Forced to pull down his shed

According to the Guardian London mayor takes down summer house built on balcony of his Islington home following complaints that it was erected without planning permission. Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, faced embarrassment today after it emerged he has taken down a wooden shed he built on the balcony of his home following complaints… Continue reading Boris Johnston Forced to pull down his shed

BUSINESSMAN ORDERED TO CHANGE £300,000 ‘BEACH HUT’

I missed this last week but you can see pics here Daily mail so you may not want to click. A millionaire businessman has been ordered to make amendments to his new £300,000 “beach hut” after he apparently built an upper-storey sun deck without planning permission. West Dorset District Council has issued an enforcement notice… Continue reading BUSINESSMAN ORDERED TO CHANGE £300,000 ‘BEACH HUT’

“Berlin Wall” Shed row : The Diplomat V The Countess

The telegraph reports A row over a former diplomat’s garden shed has descended into an acrimonious war of words after a neighbouring countess compared the structure to the “Berlin Wall”. Retired major John Dewdney-Herbert, 70, built the 10 feet wooden shed at the end of his new property as a place to work on his… Continue reading “Berlin Wall” Shed row : The Diplomat V The Countess

You think you have planning issues with your shed!

A luxury £500,000 house could be knocked down because it was built 20 inches in the wrong place. Council planners have withdrawn planning permission for the four-bedroom property in Kings Road, Easterton, Wiltshire, after discovering it was 20 inches too far to the right. Neighbours had complained about the property to Kennet District Council, which… Continue reading You think you have planning issues with your shed!