If you live in rented accommodation – whether a private arrangement or council housing – it isn’t your property.
A council flat resident has slammed her local authority for ordering her to remove her garden ornaments, including plant pots and a wind chime.
Lynda Vincent, from Winchester in Hampshire, had decorated her garden with a row of plant pots, animal garden ornaments and a wind chime – with her neighbours complimenting her for looking after the space.
The resident tried to brighten up the space by mounting seahorses on the walls, putting statues of meerkats and chickens in the stoned areas and even scattering colourful marbles and seashells around.
But the 67-year-old said she’s received ‘nothing but hassle’ from the Winchester City Council in the two years she’s lived at the flat.
There follows more of this whining. It’s a communal area and she doesn’t own it. You might think that the council’s decision is arbitrary, or even capricious and petty (given her complaint that she appears to be singled out). So be it. However, they own the property, so their rules apply. That’s it.
If your rights are genuinely stepped on and you are not getting justice, my approach would be to go medieval on the council employee involved or responsible – make it personal, the kind of justice that doesn’t involve the police or the courts. Go after them, their property, their family.
I guess there’s a legal component as well as just requiring permission – precedents etc, can’t just let people behave as they wish, if rules aren’t enforced they become unenforceable.
Especially with something like wind chimes. Noise complaints etc.
Bloody things are a nuisance.
Can’t stand the things.
I do agree about the wind chimes.
Sorry to be OT again but I just came across a YouTube video featuring a Bond Bug powered by a turbocharged Hyabusa engine. It was absolutely insane and, at the end of the video the guy said it was for sale for fifteen grand.
On this story, we own our house but there are still rules about what we can and can’t do with it. If we built an extension that wasn’t within those rules we would get hassle from the local authorities over it. This stuff isn’t hard to understand.
“Lynda Vincent, from Winchester in Hampshire, had decorated her garden…”
Therein lies the problem. She thinks it’s her garden, the council think it’s their garden. Only one way to solve this… FIGHT.
from the photos it looks shit – random tacky ornaments , miss matched pots , scraggy plants. No style or coherent layout. Chavtastic