The owner of a garden room built in the grounds of a 200-year-old listed cottage has been ordered to tear it down after one objector compared it to putting 'a McDonald's next to the Taj Mahal'.
Kenneth Walker was refused retrospective planning permission for the garden room which he added to the house at Rhodes Cottages, in North Berwick, by East Lothian Council officers who said it blocked the views of the homes from the neighbouring golf course.
And on Thursday the council's Local Review Body rejected his appeal against the decision after hearing complaints from neighbours who were concerned about a loss of privacy, its size and plans to use the cottage and garden room as a holiday let.
