Robert Fair, 62, complained repeatedly after Jane Higgins, 75, had the planter installed in the front garden of her semi detached home.
and pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, and making an offensive remark towards Mr Newton-Higgins. Fair, who has since moved to a new home, was fined a total of £210 for the offence.incident after the bitter planning row.
Fair had claimed the construction of the planter "caused disruption to street parking" when it was installed in April last year and described it as a "hideous eyesore.
" He also argued it had become a "haven for cats who use it as a litter tray" and that cats would "fight at night causingnoise. " Craig said Fair no longer lived next door to his elderly mother after he moved last year. He said: "I'm very relieved this is all over and my mum can get back to being her old self. Since he has gone, she is very happy and I've noticed a huge, to be honest.
I was just leaving my mum's home when he shouted 'queer' at me. He is just a nasty person.
"Jane's family had previously said they thought it was a joke when they were first told they needed. The garden planter is around 7m in length, 0.9m wide and 0.8m high and was built with timber planks. Her family say she is in her garden in East Lothian, Scotland, every day and the described the planter as 'beautiful and very well tendered.
"was eventually granted to allow the planter to stay. In its decision, a planning officer for East Lothian District Council, wrote: "The raised planter is visible from the public road to the northwest, it is however only some 0.8m in height and isin its height and overall appearance to boundary enclosures which are present within the surrounding area.
The raised planter whilst visible is not therefore inappropriate to its garden setting and is not harmful to the character and appearance of the house or harmful to the character and appearance of the Aberlady Conservation Area.
" Planners had said parking disruption, concern over cat noise and damage to property were not planning He added: "We were in disbelief about the whole thing. It is just crazy. My mum had put the planter in and never in a million years did we think she would need planning"But the council wrote to her and told her there had been an objection so we needed to get consent.
We laughed it off at the beginning as we thought it had been a mistake. But it turns out we did. It's taken a couple of months to manage and cost a few hundred pounds.he thought it was outrageous. After it was submitted we heard back in about eight weeks to say we had got permission agreed.
"during the plannig process as they "didn't want anything to do with him. "He added: "It was only one neighbour who complained. We knew there had been an objection but didn't know on what grounds until we saw the documents online. We all just shook our head in"The planter is in my mum's garden and is on her land.
It can not and does not impact anyone. The whole thing is very hard to believe. It was humorous in a way that it is just so ridiculous. It just has some , flowers and a few ornaments.
She had some in her back garden but this was the first one she put out the front.
"gardenShe has lived in the home for 20 years, is very community spirited and "just decided to get a planter," Craig said. He added: "My mum gets along well with all the other neighbours. Everyone we spoke to finds it amusing, and just in utter disbelief.
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