All news on the topic: Planning permission

Chris Elston had been ordered to repaint his semi-detached home in Norwich, Norfolk, after a neighbour complained the new look was not "in keeping" with the other houses

Tony Harvey has been ordered to demolish his £500,000 home that was built without permission near Glastonbury as neighbours claim that it "lit up like a Christmas tree" at night

A farmer has vowed to 'die in prison' rather than pay fines for knocking down a boundary wall he helped build more than 40 years ago - and says the council has made his life a 'living nightmare'

Hairdresser Allan Iveson learned from a customer that landlords wanted to convert his salon into a takeaway. He has now admitted defeat and has said an emotional goodbye to customers on Teeside after 45 years

Nigel Marsh is said to have fought over an enforcement notice he was issued over 'infrastructure' he had installed for visitors, including a toilet block and showers

Hannah Ingram-Moore and husband Colin have been told they will have to tear down the facility for good after it was ruled that the outbuilding was illegal

The Prime Minister wants to build a 165ft long fence after eco protestors gained access to his £1.5m home through an unlocked gate to the fury of villagers

A group of locals in a neighbourhood in Stratford, east London, have voiced their opposition to a new 21,500-seater sphere that could host some of the world's biggest music acts

Stephen Windsor did not seek planning permission for the two buildings he's so far set up, which led to Wiltshire Council ordering him to demolish them

Builder Michael Thomas, 71, is furious that planning permission was rejected for a new building and he took revenge by putting a stone gargoyle of the council leader on his roof

The Local Government Association has warned that costs will fall on ordinary taxpayers unless Parliament is given time to approve regulations to raise fees for developers

Gavin Simpson has claimed his life has been 'ruined' since Tory councillor Adam Grant moved in next door and began, what he described as, nonstop work on his house

Colin Thomas now faces having to demolish his extension and decking after canny planners caught him trying to pull a fast one on them

Emma and Terence McGuinness are in a bitter court battle and have claimed to be 'shunned and ostracised' and frozen out of the local wine society in Oxshott, Surrey, by well-to-do 'nimby' neighbours

Dorothy Slater, who suffers from arthritis, says she has been ordered to remove a shed from her parking space after a planning row - but she said it protects her mobility scooter

Dover District Council has asked Kent Wildlife Trust to seek retroactive planning permission if it wishes to keep ‘Perkūnas the Pole’. But they don't know who created it

Patrick Doran and his family had allegedly dumped rubbish, stole from shops, threatened locals and abused restaurant staff in New Zealand and were ordered to leave the country

Delivery driver Gurwinder Singh poured his life savings into the four bedroom home in Willenhall, West Midlands, and now claims he'll fight to keep it erected over a three-year planning dispute

Cliff and Dawn Baker got permission from their landlord to put up the fence after their daughter TJ White, 10, kept escaping and running out onto the road, but their local council wants them to tear it down

Planning applications often leave communities divided, but when the construction is happening right next door, a lavish home improvement scheme can be too close to home

One couple, from Darlington, splashed out for a new driveway not knowing they couldn't drive over the crossing in front of their house to access it and since the council have blocked off access to it with two bollards

Natalie Anderson claimed that condoms and used syringes were being discarded into her garden so built a fence 1.8m high in places but didn't get planning permission and now faces lowering it

Damien George is "over the moon" after a treehouse that he made in a five-year project for his daughter has been saved from demolition after a planning committee raised highway safety concerns

A man has been forced to pay thousands of pounds in legal fees, after his neighbour applied to use their shared driveway as an access road to a new housing development. But local residents are teaming up to stop the development going ahead.

The neighbours are locked in a toxic court row over four inches of land between the two terraced homes in Chiswick, London, which Laureen Watson claims was stolen from her