New Fence too high
Reported anonymously at 09:27, Tue 7 April 2009
Sent to Leeds City Council 2 minutes later
The house at the corner of Leeds Road and Moorgate Avenue (Kippax LS25) have just had a fence erected that is surly too high, looking through the fence regs on the internet (I know these regs may vary from council to council) there seems to be a limit of 1 metre for fences of walls that are next to a public footpath; as this one is. It blocks clear vision round the bend of Moorgate Ave (a place where children often play) and to be honest looks a bit of an eyesore. The photo attached is looking up Moorgate Avenue and you can clearly see how the fence now blocks your view of anything that is around the bend. I don't know what is in the owners house deeds but I live very close and as the developers wanted to keep the open plan look of the estate they place heavy restrictions on the building of boundary fences or walls.
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Updates
On Tuesday 7th April I received an e-mail from Leeds City Council thanking me for my enquiry and stating they aimed to get back to me within 10 days. On Wednesday 8th April they sent another e-mail saying my enquiry had been forwarded to the Landscape Planning Team who would reply to me directly, it's now the 5th of May and as yet I have received no further communications from the council on the matter.
I've had a fob off reply (below) but as yet no action has been taken that I have been made aware of:
Dear Sir
Unfortunately I have been dealing with a demolition of a house in respect of a legal appeal and some caravans on land. This has caused me some difficulty in providing a service and a colleague has had an injury and will be off work for some time.
I hope to have a look at this soon, but it is not a high priority. I can assure you we will look at it and we will return to you and advise what we intend to do about it in the future.
Please accept my apologies for the delay.
Mark Rochford Planning Compliance Officer Development Department Leeds City Council Tel 0113 247 8013 Fax 0113 247 8230
The Council has allowed the occupier to apply for retrospective planning permission, WHY? The regulations state that a fence next to a pavement can be no higher than 1 metre and this fence is well over that; that should be an end to it.
This is one of many info sources:
http://www.boundary-problems.co.uk/mainneighbours.htm
Leeds City Council are it seems particularly poor at helping in these situations.
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