Jason Pope wrote in
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Victoria Clare wrote:
Jason Pope wrote in
news:3F9E24EF.1090002
@virgin.net:


It is illegal to fit anything, security wise, in your front/back
garden that could injure another person who is on the property!
Harsh I know, but that is definately the case!



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My greenhouse could injure someone. My pond could injure someone.
I have a patio raised 3 feet above a concrete surface: that could
injure someone. I have some irregular paving, over which people
might trip.

I said security wise!

Is your greenhouse a security device? Has your pond been put in to
prevent burglars?

I said it is illegal to fit anything to your outer walls that might
harm a person, and that is the truth of the matter!

Ask down your local police station!


My final post, I promise.

An electric fence installed to keep foxes out or dogs in is no more a
security device than a greenhouse installed to keep out frost, and is
less likely to do serious harm to an intruder who blunders into it in
the dark than a glass greenhouse would.

The website you quote above, http://www.gardenlaw.co.uk/walls.html,
explicitly says that it is talking about measures used on borders of the
public highway, and about measures that could affect users of that
highway.

There is no way that an electric fence on the inside of a hedge or fence
would or could affect users of the highway outside, even if the garden
bordered a highway, and not (as most gardens do) another garden.

I am still confident that you are wrong, and if I need one at any point,
I will not hesitate to install an electric fence in my garden.

Victoria Clare
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gardening on a north-facing hill
in South-East Cornwall
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