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Marie Sharp

East Lothian family face tearing down £10,000 summerhouse after losing appeal

A family faces having to tear down a summerhouse created in their garden after councillors agreed that it 'did not respect' the surrounding housing development.

Gary Anderson and his partner Lana Cockerell spent £10,000 fencing in land at the side of their Wallyford house and creating a summerhouse in the corner.

But East Lothian Council planners told them that despite them owning the land it was classed as 'public open space' and they had no right to close it in or build on it.

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