A man has been ordered to pull down the garden wall of one of his properties and pay thousands after failing to comply with a planning enforcement notice. Magistrates told Khan Mahmood Khan he would need to pull down the large wall and gate outside his property by June 8, or he would be brought to court again to face further action.
Khan, from Yorkshire, appeared at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with breaching an enforcement notice. He claimed he needed the large wall because he had a “big dog." Magistrates were told that Khan had carried out work that included paving over the garden at the front of the property and building a large wall with ornate balls on top and a customised gate. Other homes on the street have smaller, “dwarf” walls.
An enforcement notice issued in 2021 said he needed to comply with planning law by making sure his wall was no taller than one metre and that the large driveway be replaced with porous materials. When asked what his plea was, Khan said: “Guilty, but it’s not my fault.”
