Thankfully none of my neighbours were like that as I had two large Tag axle vans parked on my drive for a total of 12 years.Mrs Bucket = petty snobbery.
The UK is full of them.
Kinda sad and pathetic, imho.
Probably get short shrift
You borrowed Trev's joke book Allen?
Steve? You been on the sherbets again Rob?
Do you ever have difficulty spotting it in a crowd ?
People should have to keep their gardens and areas in good order as if not it all starts to look like a £$%^ hole all around take some pride in your environment I say a neighborhood soon goes down hill it there are no sensible rules so folks can't think for themselves and need to be kept in line I think who wants to live next door to a lot of rednecks.??If it's council (or more housing association these days) and not privately owned, then they have considerable powers to make you keep your outside area to a certain standard.
This has always been the case since the council house building program which was instigated just after WW2, just it's not always enforced.
In this case I suspect he has a neighbour, or neighbours, similar to Sam's experience above, who have pressured the council into taking action.
Like I said - probably curtain twitchers, Mrs Buckets and various other small-minded snobs
Must have made a post deflection spell.For some reason I got it in my head that I was replying to Marchie.
After all, how many fekkin Merlins do I know!
If the rednecks didn't propose a health hazard, and didn't disturb WRT noise and smell I think I'd be OK TBF. What their place 'looked like' wouldn't be very high up my priorities.
We've had an ongoing planning and appeal case that's lasted for a couple of years. Upshot is we are able to build another bungalow on our land but we must do this by first building a large garage or outbuilding (under permitted development ie no planning permission required) and then convert it. This process has been given the green light by the secretary of state but we've refused permission (at appeal) to simply just build a bungalow. The main reasoning behind this is a clause in government policy which prevents development in the countryside due to visual impact, ie, 'what it looks like' (yep that chestnut again). The ridiculous contradiction is that IF the council granted permission for the bungalow then they'd have the ability to dictate it's appearance but they have no control over appearance whatsoever if I build a garage under permitted development and convert it.Seriously though, I've been to Russia a couple of times. Out in the smaller towns and villages they don't have the planning laws that are imposed on us in the UK - you know, the ones that only allow you to build something that looks like all of the other square boxes around you?
I was fascinated as we drove around looking at a massive diversity of building techniques and styles which had grown over the years and found it absolutely charming. A few years back I looked into building a log cabin as a main residence here - it would have been a beautiful building built from a kit imported from Sweden and half the price or less of building conventional brick building. But NO! I was told that it was a none starter by a narrow minded and stubborn council that it wouldn't fit in with the rest of the houses on that road.
It's the same in the village I live in now. Very hard to get planning permission to build anything, unless you happen to be on the Council where it would seem that you can build whatever you like and then be granted PP retrospectively if anybody dares to complain about it!
ENGINE not Wizard Colin....Engine not wizard.
ENGINE not Wizard Colin....Engine not wizard.
I've been through phases in my life where I've actually hated it, and the comments used to irritate me but now I'm older I'm really not bothered at all and comments and jokes don't bother me either, no good comes from twisted knickers and I have a good laugh along. Yeh, I like the name now and VERY proud to be named after that awesome engine. (not the magician just in case there's any doubt)
I hope your car is a Vauxhall though?I've been through phases in my life where I've actually hated it, and the comments used to irritate me but now I'm older I'm really not bothered at all and comments and jokes don't bother me either, no good comes from twisted knickers and I have a good laugh along. Yeh, I like the name now and VERY proud to be named after that awesome engine. (not the magician just in case there's any doubt)
