Sources

We link to these sources from individual guides where relevant. They are the places to check if you want to confirm a rule for yourself.

Planning permission for fences, gates and walls

• Planning Portal: fences, gates and garden walls (England)
• Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015
• Welsh Government: planning permission
• mygov.scot: planning permission
• nidirect: planning permission

Boundaries and neighbours

• GOV.UK: your property boundaries
• GOV.UK: party walls and building work
• GOV.UK: resolving neighbour disputes

Hedges, trees and wildlife

• Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003, Part 8 (high hedges)
• GOV.UK: high hedges complaints system
• Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
• High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013

Dogs

• GOV.UK: controlling your dog in public
• Dangerous Dogs Act 1991

Highways and safety

• Highways Act 1980
• Health and Safety Executive

Timber

• BS EN 335, durability of wood and wood-based products: use classes (published by BSI)
• Wood Protection Association guidance on specifying treated timber

Consumers and data

• Citizens Advice
• Financial Ombudsman Service
• Information Commissioner's Office

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