In message , at
16:49:22 on Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Tom Anderson
remarked:
Ever heard of a conservation area or a listed building? They can tell
you what colour to paint your front door.

They told a friend of mine (or her landlady, anyway) that she shouldn't
have double glazing. This seems a case of priorities not being right.

They will have been told "no ghastly white plastic UPVC double glazing".
There are plenty of other (more expensive) sorts that can be deployed
without defacing the property.

Normal housing doesn't have such stringent rules, but neither is it a
case of "no rules".

And moreover, in this case, the problem is that get to the private
property, you have to go over public property, the kerb, damaging it in
the process. I couldn't give two hoots about some halfwit parking a car
in their garden,

I do, if it turns a residential street into something resembling a used
car showroom.

but i don't want to be paying to repair damage they cause in doing it.

That as well.
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Roland Perry