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Marie Sharp

East Lothian family fight to save summerhouse in row over 'open space'

A family ordered to take down a fence and summerhouse on their own land are challenging council claims the areas was supposed to be kept as 'open space'.

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

However a year after the work was carried out East Lothian Council contacted them to say they needed planning permission for the work and when they applied it was refused.

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