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Donald Turvill

Edinburgh man's neighbours fume over fence 'built around common land'

A man living in an Edinburgh suburb is set to be ordered to tear down a fence put up without planning permission, after neighbours said woodland he didn't own had been built around to extend his garden.

Gregory Favier applied to the council for consent to keep the six-foot tall wooden fence around his Cramond home but planners concluded it resulted in an "unacceptable loss of open space".

His retrospective bid was lodged after the structure was reported to the council.

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