Family ordered to remove fencing

A FAMILY have been ordered to remove a timber fence separating their front garden from a main road after their application to retain it was turned down.

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Mother Sophie Daly had sought permission to keep the fence, which reaches 1.98m at its tallest point and exceeds the height of a “dwarf wall”, along with a garden gate she said “enhancing safety and security” for her child and the family’s large breed dog.

She argued it provided superior protection from noise and pollution generated by the busy A48 near her home in Chepstow, compared to the hedge it had replaced, for the detached two-storey property.

The fence was erected at the St Lawrence Road home between February and April this year, with Ms Daly submitting a retrospective application in August.