Around 20 years ago we obtained planning consent for a house,
following outline. One of the conditions was that a 2m fence or wall
should be erected along the entire boundary with the neighbouring plot
(that house not built at the time) from one end of the plot to the
road. It still forms the boundary between both front and back gardens.
The fence, unsurprisingly, is now becoming somewhat the worse for
wear and we plan to replace the wooden panels with netting and
planting so that it forms something akin to a hedge. The concrete
posts will remain. This is a rural area, and frankly the end result
will look much more in keeping with the location and environment than
a rather stark wooden fence (even though that was the planning requirement).
I'm assuming that there's no obligation to maintain and eventually
replace a fence which, like this one, formed part of the original
consent 20 years ago? There's nothing specific about that in the consent.
