A council has threatened to take legal action against a group of neighbours if they do nothing about the height of their fences. Following a lengthy dispute with the neighbourhood council over a tidy but otherwise ordinary fence, homeowners in Lliswerry in Newport started getting enforcement notices from Newport City Council last year.
If a fence will be more than one metre height and be located on a public motorway, planning permission is required. Four irate locals claim that although they are being targeted, the countless other fences in the neighbourhood can remain because they have been there for more than four years. Two fences owned by one lady are identical in height, but the newer fence needs to be taken down.
Days after spending thousands of pounds to have her fence built last summer, Angela Cureton, 78, happily began painting it dark green. She was unaware that Corinne Winslett, who lived nearby, was engaged in a dispute with the council over her fence, which led the council to become aware of further, nearly identical fences that had been erected in Lliswerry.
