Slough family furious after neighbours build ‘concrete prison’ (Image: Slough Borough Council)
Residents at a detached family home in were surprised to spot an extension looking like a “concrete ” appear in their neighbour’s earlier this autumn.
The incensed locals on Long Furlong Drive wrote to Slough Borough Council when a retrospective planning application was submitted for the structure in September after it was built before consulting the local authority.
They described the concrete block, which replaced a small wooden hut in the adjoining garden, as an “overwhelming over-development of the plot” and said it had an “overwhelmingly unpleasant” impact on their home.
The outraged family also said they had been left in darkness by the study-looking build, describing it as “too high”, with access to the roof via a treehouse also posing a “worrisome” privacy risk.
Neighbours say the ‘prison like structure’ blocks light from their garden (Image: Slough Borough Council)
The council refused to retrospectively green light the build on November 11, highlighting its incongruity with the rest of the property and wider street scene.
The “prison like” extension has also involved replacing a wooden fence that previously divided the two properties with one of the concrete walls.
This encroachment onto the neighbouring site left no room for a “wooden padding cover” detailed in the plans, as the objection letter observed.
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Planning officers also said no pre-application advice had been sought by the person behind the extension and that there were no obvious amendments that could increase its acceptability.
The family living next to the development wrote in a note: “The visual amenity of the structure is unappealing, resembling a prison wall and making our garden feel overwhelmingly unpleasant.”