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Grunff wrote:
Jason Pope wrote:

In the UK he would need planning permission for anything brick-built
over 6ft high.

Nonsense.

At least that's what it used to be.

No, this has never been the case.

Like most urban myths, there is a modicum of truth behind this one,
but only enough to say that it is not wholly a fantasy.

London had planning laws for a good many centuries before they
existed in the rest of the country, and there were references in
them to permanent constructions of over 6' high. Certainly walls,
but perhaps sheds as well.

It is therefore POSSIBLE that was the case in London before about
1955 - but it certainly wasn't anywhere else ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.