ninety two-one year-conventional told to sprint down liked rose bushes for encroaching village green

A devastated ninety two-one year-conventional lady has been ordered to spend away her liked rose bushes which in discovering stood in entrance of her cottage for five many years.

Thelma Peppert, ninety two, has lived in Rose Cottage in the sleepy village of Dalton Piercy, County Durham, since 1967.

She’s proudly tended to the minute flower bed in entrance of her Grade II-listed cottage that dates assist to 1750 per week.

However Thelma and her son John Proudlock, sixty two, had been alarmed to catch a letter from Dalton Piercy Parish Council telling them to spend away the garden.

In the event that they didn’t, the council threatened to forestall it themselves.

In the letter the council states that the bushes are on village green land and asks for them to be removed inner 14 days.

John, who’s a fat-time carer to his mum, says the letter has worsened his mum’s excessive blood stress.

However the council defended their actions, asserting the flower border is no longer allowed below legislation, and could moreover block them building an procure entry to course to a unusual younger of us’s playground.

John acknowledged: ‘The clue is in the name actually. It’s Rose Cottage, so it has roses exterior.

‘The parish council in discovering tried to claim or no longer it is got greater over the years, nevertheless it undoubtedly has no longer.

‘I actually in discovering pictures that prove that. The flower border has continuously been about 3ft out and it has by no map been an topic sooner than.’

He added: ‘My mum is sick and housebound now, nevertheless for loads of years of her life she tended to these bushes with care. They had been her pride and joy, along with this apartment.’

In accordance with Alan Timothy, vice chair of Dalton Piercy Parish Council, a Land Registry attraction ruled the land valid as much as the wall of her apartment belongs to the village.

Mr Timothy acknowledged: ‘We’re planning to influence a younger of us’s play divulge near the home with an procure entry to course going previous it.

‘The garden encroaches on that and we predict about he has made his garden greater to spend a in discovering a look at and block the path. It is miles no longer acceptable.

‘If Mr Proudlock disorders an apology to the council for the names he has called us, and removes the substances of the garden he has build in, we can let him protect the bushes and we are in a position to all return to being gay.

‘It is miles tremendous that other of us in discovering minute flower beds exterior their homes and we undoubtedly in discovering no longer singled him out correct for having one.’