Sorry Rugeleyboy, but that is so wrong!! however it may be applicable for the fences at your house! At my house for instance, we have no kerbs, we legally have trees, hedges and fences over 2 meters!!
ratter............. i am a fencing contractor and have recently done a fence where the client wanted a 2 m high fence on his front garden, i advised him that it had to be only 1m high on the front lawn and he gave me a letter from the council staiting that "my above post"