North Tyneside councillors defied council officers to grant planning permission for the installation of a 2.4m steel mesh fence around a grade II listed home in Whitley Bay.
The owners of the house, the Bay View bungalow on Norma Crescent, Whitley Bay, applied to have a 2.4m fence installed to prevent anti-social behaviour occurring in the garden and grounds which they say has plagued them for some time. There is a fence already in place but is reportedly easily scalable by tresspassers.
In a written representation to councillors, the occupants said: “Certain groups of young people (mainly young males) use the cliff top, to enter the sea (tombstoning we believe it is named) and to engage in anti-social behaviour, which invariably includes alcohol and drug use. It is this type of person who will trespass across our garden as it is easier to do so than climb back down the cliff top. There have been times when the garden has been used as a dust bin, and we have had to collect beer cans, food wrapping etc.
