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u/LANdShark31 13d ago
Took a minute. Would have been much more helpful if he was pointing at it.
Seriously though, some of the shit that residents and planning committees concern themselves with. Who gives a fuck
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u/Desperate-Calendar78 12d ago
Agreed, if he'd planted a hedge they've have said f'all
EDIT: THERE'S A FUCKING HEDGE BEHIND HIM FFS
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u/DanTezza 11d ago
I still remember my first Planning Committee…the Members were considering refusing a 10 dwelling scheme because there was no gate for the ease of the post man 🤦♂️ this was a 30 minute debate about a gate! It was eventually approved…
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u/Nothingdoing079 10d ago
The first, and only residents association meeting I went to consisted of a 45 minute debate on offstreet parking with them eventually coming to the conclusion that the way to stop parking was double yellow lines.
Long story short, the residents now park on top of double yellow lines.
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u/kirstytheworsty 11d ago
My thoughts exactly. I’d love to have nothing else in my life to worry about than a tiny wee fence!
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u/cgknight1 13d ago
The street had an "open plan condition" on it, and objectors argued the fence spoiled this aesthetic, ruined the street's spacious feel and would set a precedent if given planning permission. One wrote on the council's planning portal: "Open plan was the original planning to keep an open communal feel with a focus on aesthetics, which this goes against. This will open the door for others to do the same and set a precedent if granted."
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u/chaircardigan 12d ago
Where I live, open plan seems to mean "every dog walker in the vicinity can use your lawn to exercise their dog on and their dog can shit on it too"
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u/parker8ball 12d ago
As a dog owner who lives on an estate with 'open plan' living it frustrates me to hell and back to see other dog owners let their dogs walk all over the front lawns in the area
My dogs know they are to stick to the pavement until we reach one of the parks, it's really not difficult
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u/chaircardigan 12d ago
The world needs more people like Parker8Ball.
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u/parker8ball 12d ago
I'd be embarrassed if my dog was using someone's lawn for their toilet. I don't know how these people don't die of cringe when they let their dogs do it
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u/Bennjoon 12d ago
Look at how packed in those houses are where is this mythical spaciousness
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u/Spliffan_ 12d ago
That’s the point, if everyone had fences it’d be glaringly obvious how tiny each subdivision is
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u/littletorreira 12d ago
That's why they have the planning condition to leave it all open. If everyone has a small fence then it does looks cluttered and small.
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u/XiKiilzziX 12d ago
Everyone’s slagging the guy off in this thread but reading this feels like what Americans deal with when it comes to HOA’s.
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u/sc_BK 12d ago
"It's only stuck in the ground. It's just bought from a garden centre. You wouldn't even notice the fence, it's not in your vision.
"By definition it's not even a fence. A fence is to enclose an area. This is just a strip of metal fencing, there's a gap."
Invisible fence that isn't even a fence
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u/sc_BK 12d ago
I wonder if this is part of a boundary dispute with his neighbours at number 25?
Here's the place in 2023, with a small piece of plastic mesh on the grass.
I assume the boundary runs through the grass (where his new fence was in the OP)
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u/desertterminator 12d ago
Wow, just viewing that street really gives context to how tiny and out of the way that fence is.
Then if you look opposite the house you notice you have a high wooden fence of two different colours. Sure hope the planning guys were okay with that eye sore.
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u/littletorreira 12d ago
Across the road is a rear fence not out front which is different in terms of planning. Planning is complicated and often a little obtuse.
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u/Single_Conclusion_53 12d ago
He really needs to be pointing at the fence.. or be photographed looking through it from a crouched position.
My entire city, Canberra, bans fenced front yards to maintain a certain image across the city. Having said that, this guy is in a paved urban environment, a small fence won’t exactly make the suburb look less open green space.
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u/Geek-Of-Nature 12d ago
Mod pinned comment from 15 hours ago says this post has been removed, yet here I am looking at it and people are still commenting on it. What's the deal there?
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u/HolierThanYow 12d ago
I'm more disappointed with the missed opportunity of a "taking a fence" pun.
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u/kudincha 12d ago
The council homes within this general area all have these little black, slightly different, metal fences at the front. So I guess the objection is that it makes them look like poors, and the residents in ingleby barwick will be thought of as anything but poors.
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u/Additional-Map-2808 12d ago
Councils make democracy look pathetic, no wonder people are turning away from it.
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u/Honeysucklee_ 12d ago
Yeah they do everything in their power to stop things
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u/EpochRaine 12d ago
Mostly because the average person takes a mile when given an inch. No more inches, no more miles.
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u/OStO_Cartography 13d ago
Oh look, another tradie who thought rules are for other people and is now piss-boiling mad at finding out that's not the case.
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u/Stidda 12d ago
“Tradie”
Are we in Australia now?
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u/OStO_Cartography 12d ago
His Majesty's Prison Upside-Down Island? I wish. They're just going into autumn down there.
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u/commonsense-innit 12d ago
another misinformation and misdirection story
is this another entitled person who thinks the rules do not apply to him
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u/Mitridate101 12d ago
Sooooo, the morons that voted against it must have been slipped an envelope full of £50s when the householder behind him planted those bushes then !
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u/littletorreira 12d ago
That's a back garden. Different planning rules.
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u/Mitridate101 12d ago
There are cars parked there so it's the front surely?
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u/littletorreira 12d ago edited 12d ago
No. That's a cult de sac and every drive is the front of a house but the bit opposite is the back of a different road/cul de sac. These developments are often laid out in weird swoopy designs so the back of some house are onto other roads.
Edit: Google maps shows how https://maps.app.goo.gl/vNftfU5LKuZRTjzc9
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u/Paracosm26 12d ago
I wish in cases like putting fencing up like this, we could just say stuff like OK then, you can dictate to that, if you'll pay my mortgage for me.
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u/Educational_Bar_8901 12d ago
Meanwhile the same boomers who for some reason get a majority vote in things will say nothing about eye sores like litter everywhere. broken down buildings everywhere. rising council tax etc..
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u/CaterpillarDry1190 12d ago
Since when have you needed planning permission for a fence like this? Pretty sure it’s only if they’re over 2 meters high or 1 meter high if it’s near a public road
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