If you’re considering adding a pergola to your garden, you might want to double-check the planning permission rules in your local area. Even if you know the rules, it can be easy to be caught out, as a content creator in Nottingham found out when the council ordered her to take down her pergola.
Belle Rogers from Nottingham, known as @bydesignermum on TikTok and Instagram, has gone viral after revealing that the council has ordered her to take down the wooden pergola in the garden at the back of her house, where she’s lived for 11 years, following an anonymous complaint.