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Man spends £5k on 6ft 'security' wall outside home but council want it bulldozed

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A man who erected a six-foot wall outside his house for "security" has been locked in a two-year battle with the council because they want it demolished.Mark Roberts paid £5,000 to build the structure outside his home in Caerphilly, Wales in 2020.

But just one year later he received a letter from Caerphilly County Borough Council demanding the wall be demolished.“The wall is three years old this month and I had a huge conifer hedge there,” the garden product manufacturer told Wales Online. “I took it all down because the wall was coming apart and it was getting dangerous.

So I then built the wall - a nice strong wall, didn’t think anything of it, and then we had a letter from the council that someone had reported it.“I was really shocked because the wall had been up for some time.

I’m not the only one with a wall like this either. I’ve walked around the estate and there are a lot of walls like that and they’ve never had a problem.“Another wall has been built across the road - a beautiful wall but a similar height to mine.

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