Pink Cottages No Longer Allowed Apparently !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23127907

You see pink and other coloured cottages all over the West Country. I can't see why the local council has kicked up such a fuss !

[Sharingan]

Boring people who don't have enough to do. I mean who complains about what colour someone else paints their house. Sad really. If I were the people whose cottage was targeted I'd buy another non listed house in the village and really give them soemthing to complain about.

[frugalfred]

The moral is - never buy a listed building; the red tape/bureaucracy associated with a listed building is horrendous!

[viv38]

I love this colour - seems mad you can't paint your own house in any colour you choose.

[Sqad]

I would also complain if i lived in the village in that i find the colour "garish."

Fine for the Mediterranean,but not for a traditional English village.

[jno]

depends, Sharingan. I'm in a conservation area where all the houses are red brick and look wonderful together, across several streets.

But on one street just outside the zone people have for some reason decided to paint their redbrick houses... red. And not just one red. Every one is a different shade, from pink to orange. It looks ludicrous. I'm very happy that people are prevented from doing it in our street.

This may be a different case, as she says the house always was pink, in which case she should be allowed to keep it the same colour.

[pastafreak]

They say its 'not in keeping' with the rest of the village. As if white is the only colour our forebears would have chosen even if other colours were available. The 18th c ( when this cottage probably dates from ) was a riot of colour-for those who could afford it.

[ummmm]

I live in a terraced street with a mixture of Victorian, 1920/30's houses. The corner house had an extension and painted the exterior orange. They were made to change it.

[Octavius]

Its what happens when you buy a listed building and live in a conservation area, you must apply and be told what the permissions and requirements are with very little to say for yourself. Painting the facade is a material change, so they are right to stick by their rules. She should have checked this out first.

[stewey]

The old adage "Well, one has to draw a line somewhere, doesn't one?" might be used in this type of situation, Anyway, what if Queenie decided to slosh camouflage paint all over Buckingham Palace? Number one, it would look horrendous; number two, the tourists would be running amok all over London trying to find it.

[Bee35]

Pink houses area very common sight here in
E Anglia.

[viv38]

There is no way in this world I would complain about the colour of someone's house. There are far more important things to get het up about - my instinct is to say 'get a life'!

[pastafreak]

I admit I'd choose a softer,more dusty pink...and it would not be out of keeping.

[mikey4444]

Cottages this colour are everywhere in Devon and Cornwall !

[ummmm]

I love it, I think it looks great.

[Sharingan]

Good job whoever moaned about it doesn't live in Balamory ;-)

http://andrewagnew.com/attachments/Image/Balamory_small.JPG

[Octavius]

"my instinct is to say 'get a life'!"

But as they are conservation officers, this IS their life (and job).

[bazwillrun]

loads of pink places in Brighton

[Prudie]

Goes with the territory of living in a listed building. Although I think building conservationists are bureaucratic in the extreme it is their job and if you have any feelings about preserving some of our heritage you'd forgive them. In some of the Med countries, Spain for example, they are far stricter than this, limiting exterior paint to about 4 specified colours and shutters have to be white, brown or green. I think it adds to the national identity personally.

[Gromit]

Apparently Pink daub is how old buildings looked when they were originally built. White and cream are relatively new and not authentic.

[Spoonboy]

I'd repaint dayglo pink, myself!