Garden Fence

[elaine32]

Hi everyone, I live on a corner i have a very big side garden which i want to put up a kids play gym, at the moment there is only a 3ft fence and i want to replace it with a 6ft fence, i applied to council regarding this and they have advised building regulations say i can't errect any higher than 1 meter in front of my property, Can i appeal this decision or am i wasting my time i have tried to grow hedges but for the last 3 yrs they have all died ground is poor and weather not great in glasgow. I must have some right of privacy and i only have small back garden.
Can anyone advise

[teag1rl]

I know nothing about building regs-only thought they applied to buildings anyway, not stand alone walls. If the proposed fence is between your house and is considered to be adjacent to the road it will need planning permission if it is to exceed 1metre in height.
However this applies to England-things may be different in Scotland.

[buildersmate]

No it isn't different (not in this respect, anyway) and it IS planning permission that is the issue here.
You can usually put a fence up 2 metres high down the side, because it is the side not the front, but you may find that Development Control (the PP people) won't let you put the said fence right on the line of your boundary - they may want a margin between the highway/footpath and your 2m high fence. Is that the issue?

[Ethel]

One metre high for fencing and walls at the front of property is standard.

You can appeal but you won't get very far.

[elaine32]

No the issue is i have a about 4 meters to the front of my property before the fence starts he said from the building forwards i can only put up 1 meter fence.

[elaine32]

Ethel- can i ask if i appeal would it make a difference if a neighbour is on the sex offenders register, therefor i have the right to protect my kids from peering eyes, It's a road i didn't want to go down but if it would let me put my fence up i will take it.

[Ethel]

No difference at all. Allowing one to do it will open the floodgates for others, so they tend to stick to the rules on this.

A sex offender isn't necessarily a paedophile, interested in children and they certainly won't take that in to account.

And your claim for a desire for privacy won't stand up if you tell them you want to put a trampoline in the garden for your children. Chidlren bouncing on those things take away all your neighbours' garden privacy/

[elaine32]

Thanks ethel guess i'll have another go at planting hedges again, thanks again

[markysngc]

could tryl eylandii, pretty safe bet they wont die, but may become more of a problem to you then they are worth

http://www.leylandii.com

[Panic Button]

Just stick a fence up and see what happens?

[bushbaby_de]

There may well be a condition on the planning permission from when your housing was built stating that fence lines cannot be altered, to preserve the open plan nature of the area etc etc, its very common in my Local Planning Authority area. If this is the reason why the planning department won't let you put up a fence, you may well find yourself the recipient of a Planning Enforcement Notice if you just go ahead and put one up anyway.