In this area we are supposed to use one of an approved range of colours for the outside of the house, traditional style windows and shutters (the material use of wood is not enforced) and traditional roofing materials (mainly semi rounded terracotta tiles, but stone, serpentine not slate, would also be ok).

We have a house near us that has been reconstructed with a flat tile roof (shingle style), folding metal shutters, and has been finished on the outside with a semi gloss plastering that is normally used internally in bathrooms. This was all approved in the last days of the administration of a mayor who was locally known as Mr. 10%. Who knows why mad

Serves them right that they have shutters that bang in the wind and constantly have problems with the ingress of water from the roof, not to mention the streaks of pigeon dermot down the face of the shiny finish.


Peter

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