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Planning Permission and fence.

2 years ago

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Hi,

I'm in a predicament that hopefully someone on here could shed some light on before I go down the official council route. We're having a garage conversion - everything so far has been agreed with the council - permitted development, building regs etc. We needed do dig some deeper footings and the council again came around, and signed everything off.

Now they're saying that all works are guaranteed for 10 years - however, it will now not be able to get final sign-off without some trees (damn Leylandii) removed. That's great - we've had some other trees removed as the roots were ruining our drive which left 'our side' of the Leylandii dead which now look awful since they've been removed, pic below

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Tim Summers
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2 years ago
Well as the garage conversion was all signed off a couple of weeks ago, there's still time to get another job completed before Christmas :)

Planning permission applied for, and subsequently granted, for the 'forced' removal of these conifers, to be replaced by a fence.

The work started Monday:

and it took them no time at all to clear everything

............. at the end of Day 1 all dead trees cut down, roots removed.

apparently we get a sun-rise as well which I've never seen from my front door.

The start of Day 2 and they got cracking on the base-boards and panels

and even with all of the awful weather when I got home they'd got on brilliantly and had got loads done

There's 3 more panels to go in down the side out of view, then a 90 degree square-off that needs to be completed today, a bit of clearing up, then I think it's done.

I'll sort out the old raised bit and stain the fence in the spring - no point in starting to do anything now in this weather. I'm thinking of building some sort of raised bed along the length of the fence, mainly to hide the concrete base-boards, then use some of the mud to fill them, get rid of the rest, then use some road-planings, or Type 1 MOT to fill it all in to make a temporary car-park/drive extension before concentrating on re-doing the driveway at a later date
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