Brother and sister defend erecting fence in beauty spot after neighbours 'smash it down'

Residents who unrecorded adjacent Chesham, Buckinghamshire, person been near furious by the actions of member and sister Urusa and Syed Ahmed who erected a obstruction and chopped disconnected an country of land

A member and sister who enactment up an robust obstruction successful an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty person been ordered to instrumentality it down - days aft fuming neighbours attacked it with sledgehammers.

Urusa Ahmed and member Syed erected the barrier successful woodland which blocked respective nationalist footpaths, angering locals. They added a operation connected the tract they ain adjacent Chesham successful Buckinghamshire - arsenic good arsenic warnings against trespassing.

Some locals person present taken the instrumentality into their ain hands and smashed a conception of the fence. Last week, constabulary caught 2 men equipped with sledgehammers attacking the site. The siblings besides assertion they person been attacked by men with "big dogs" who effort to intimidate them.

Urusa told MailOnline : “Everybody has the right, it is simply a quality right, to obstruction disconnected your land, particularly erstwhile radical are trespassing. The onshore is similar everyplace else.

“There is simply a sheep workplace adjacent to it, it has fences, the workplace down america has fences, other america has fences, adjacent to america has fences. Now archer maine 1 bully crushed wherefore the assembly volition not let america to person fences? What's the quality betwixt america and the remainder of the radical here?

'Why can't radical person livestock successful cultivation land, and if you person livestock, however tin you expect america to support them? There are men coming successful with dogs, large dogs, deliberately trying to intimidate me.”

The member and sister person submitted a retrospective readying application, but it was denied by Buckinghamshire Council. Peter Strachan, Buckinghamshire Council's Cabinet Member for Planning and Regeneration, said: “In August 2024, we issued a readying enforcement announcement requiring the removal of [an] unauthorised improvement astatine this site. That announcement is required to beryllium complied with by 1 January 2025, unless an entreaty is lodged against it successful the meantime. A transcript of that announcement tin beryllium recovered connected our website.

“The exertion submitted nether PL/24/1965/FA volition beryllium progressed to determination successful the meantime. We volition see the implications babelike connected the result of that application.”

A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police added: “We attended an incidental of transgression harm connected Pednor Road, Chesham yesterday (17/9). We are liaising with the assembly implicit the matter.”