Pink Cottages No Longer Allowed Apparently !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23127907

You see pink and other coloured cottages all over the West Country. I can't see why the local council has kicked up such a fuss !

[FredPuli43]

It is the wrong shade. English Heritage could have told the owners that a very dark shade of pink, equally ugly (!) is a traditional shade.

[youngmafbog]

They have kicked up a fuss because it is a listed building. What if they wanted to stick a ruddy great extension on it, would that be ok too in all your eyes?

A line has to be drawn somewhere and ok some thing on the fringe will seem frivolous but move the line and where does it stop?

[237SJ]

I was born and bred in Devon but I wouldn`t say pink cottages are everywhere. At least ones as garish as that aren`t. I had a listed place in a conservation area - never again. I didn`t get any grief but a friend of mine who lives within the Exmoor National Park threatened the council with harassment to get them off his back as they were sticking their noses into his restoration of an old wreck that hadn`t been lived in for 20 years. The owners of the pink cottage say that it was painted pink in the past but as far as listing is concerned, it`s the condition of the place as it was when it was listed that has to be respected. How it was before that is immaterial.

[sp1814]

Ahh...those three words:

'Retrospective planning permission'.

It can often end in tears.

Me...I would've submitted plans for the renovations to the planning committee. Just not worth the hassle to go for RPP.

To my eyes, the colour looks a bit 'overly pink' - when I've seen similar properties on the south coast, the pink is more of a strawberry ice cream colour (pale pastel pink).

This one is more like the pink of those disgusting Bassetts liquorice allsorts (the round ones with the black liquorice in the middle.

[boxtops]

Send the council officer to Tobermory, that'd give him the HebeGeBees,

http://www.scotland-flavour.co.uk/pictures/tobermory_mull_scotland_G2437.jpg

[Spoonboy]

Your link only shows a web address boxtops.

[tonyav]

And I thought the Pink pound was strong !

[jake-the-peg]

aarghh

Awful horrible - No - the council is absolutely right

It should look like this

http://www.canveyisland.org/page_id__29_img__320.aspx

traditional pink comes from blood in lime wash - this looks like a 5 year old girl who's applied their own make up!

I live in a listed house and when I bought it I knew the rules - people who buy listed buildings hoping to get away with it do my head in!

[Barmaid]

It's no different to a number of buildings you see in Suffolk.

I visited my parents yesterday. They live in a 17th c manor house with various buildings dating back to the 14thc. They have to jump through hoop after hoop after hoop just to re-roof the bloody house. They cant even paint the bloody gutters without approval. YET, the idiotic planners have allowed a new build within sight of this "important listed building" which looks like a bloody pre-fab and is hideous. So, "no Dad BM, you have to paint your gutter this shade and in the meantime, we'll let the pikey down the road put up a pre fab which looks like a 70s block of flats".

[LazyGun]

They should have gone with Regency Stripe instead... got no time for them :)


No, but seriously pink is OK - although from the picture, the particular shade of pink they are using does look a tad garish...

[Spoonboy]

That would look good in dayglo pink, too, Jake!

[LazyGun]

@ SP - Stop dissing my favourite Bassetts liquorice allsort - thats fighting talk, that is... :)

[jake-the-peg]

Come on BM these are the rules of listed buildings.

The issue of building ugly buildings in the area is a conservation area issue. Presumably it's outside of that.

We need this sort of legislation otherwise people will just destroy the country's architectural heritage and all we'll be left with is pictures of what it used to be like before everybody tore down expensive thatched roofs and replaced leaded lights with plastic double glazing

[weecalf]

So no longer when they are at home and felling well are they in the pink

[Barmaid]

no Jake, the PP that has been allowed is within the village curtilage and therefore within the conservation area - it really is hideous. We are talking a sleepy little Lincolnshire village here where the majority of houses are limestone with collyweston stone slate - all other developments have been within keeping.

I'm lucky, my parents see the value of what they have and upkeep it properly (my father spends hours refurbing stuff using appropriate materials) - yet the planners will bitch about the colour of the paint he uses on his house and a few door down will let a prefab go up. It beggars belief.

[FredPuli43]

Your choice of clour for listed cottages is limited, as it is, in this village, for any building in a conservation area.For the cottage you can have a very dark green. Nobody in living memory has ever seen one in that colour, but the jobsworths in the Council can't argue with it.

But that's a small matter. You can get abiding conditions enforceable against other owners. A friend lived in Rose Walk, Purley. She was obliged to have only roses of a certain colour in her front garden, and no other plant. On the other hand, you do get daft exceptions. Another friend, a lawyer, naturally, researched her conditions.She found that "no business or trade is to be conducted from [the house]". That was a standard condition,still found. But she read on.It continued "SAVE the testing and manufacture of aircraft engines". The house was in a road called Hangar Lane. That was a clue! The prospect of someone installing an engine for a 737, just to test, had not been within the ken of the draftsman in the 1930s, but it must have been tempting to try.

[Barmaid]

This was really funny, we are converting one of the buildings into living accommodation. There is a door to the West side of the building. It has been a door (looking at the architecture) for several hundred years. Indeed the door itself, is probably the other end of the "Screens Passage" of the old Manor house. According to the planners, this can only be used as a window now and not a door. It opens out into a field owned by us. go figure........

[sp1814]

Well, they have three years before they have to re-paint...perhaps they should wait to see whether the colour fades naturally to a more acceptable shade and then resubmit the retrospective planning request?

[sp1814]

LazyGun

No, no, no, no...all Bassetts liquorice is horrible, but those round pink ones are the absolute apex of awfulness.

[ludwig]

Nothing wrong with pink, but it's the wrong shade. It should be pastel rather than shocking.