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A brother and sister are at battle with their native council after erecting an unlawful fence by an Space of Excellent Pure Magnificence.
Urusa Ahmed and her brother Syed triggered a dispute in July 2021 when, with out planning permission, they erected a fence round their two acre woodland plot that blocked public footpaths.
The pair went on to illegally set up massive safety gates and have erected a number of constructions, together with a big dwelling-type constructing with home windows and a livestock shed, on the woodland web site they personal close to Chesham, Bucks.
One native, who didn’t want to be named, instructed MailOnline: ‘I used to be out strolling someday and noticed these fences and trespass warning indicators, I could not imagine it.’
After lacking Buckinghamshire Council’s order to take the fence down by November 2022 , the case was upgraded to ‘a legal offence’.
Urusa Ahmed (pictured) and her brother Syed triggered a dispute in July 2021 when, with out planning permission, they erected a fence round their two acre woodland plot that blocked public footpaths
Pictured: One livid native man allegedly smashed massive sections of the fence down
Pictured: The fence by the woodland, an Space of Excellent Pure Magnificence, has enraged locals
Pictured: The Ahmed household has additionally put up indicators close to their unlawful fence warning locals they’re on CCTV
However the dispute has boiled over in current months as locals, livid at what they declare is council inaction over the saga, have taken the legislation into their very own fingers and smashed massive sections of the fence down.
The assaults got here to a head on Tuesday when police had been known as in after two males armed with a sledgehammer had been caught hacking down the fence.
The fury have seen Urusa, who lives 35 minutes away in Taplow, Bucks, set up CCTV cameras which shout ‘preserve out’ to passers-by.
Whereas an array of indicators warning to not trespass and ‘do not be a legal’ additionally function, and one other – since eliminated – warned the general public the world was a ‘taking pictures vary’, regardless of the household maintaining goats and sheep on the land.
Urusa instructed MailOnline: ‘All people has the correct, it’s a human proper, to fence off your land, particularly when persons are trespassing.
‘The land is like in every single place else! There’s a sheep farm subsequent to it, it has fences, the farm behind us has fences, reverse us has fences, subsequent to us has fences.
‘Now inform me one good motive why the council won’t enable us to have fences? What is the distinction between us and the remainder of the individuals right here?
‘Why cannot individuals have livestock in agricultural land, and when you’ve got livestock, how will you count on us to guard them.
‘There are males coming in with canines, massive canines, intentionally making an attempt to intimidate me.’
The Ahmeds bought 4 of sixteen plots in July 2003 for round £20,000 every from a agency known as Land For Funding, primarily based in Ealing, West London.
Urusa Ahmed stated the council had no ‘good motive’ to cease them erecting the unlawful fence (pictured)
Pictured: A barn is erected on the Ahmed’s farming land in Chesham, Buckinghamshire
Pictured: An indication warning locals of cameras bordering the Ahmed’s land – cameras they don’t seem to be permitted to place up
Pictured: A safety digital camera arrange by the Ahmeds to observe over their unlawful border fence
For years, the Ahmeds did nothing with the land however in 2021 Syed submitted an software to construct a Kimchi farm on a piece of the plot.
Plans confirmed how he wished to make use of the land for rising Chinese language cabbage to produce to supermarkets, with a big barn, the scale of a 5 bed room home, used to retailer farming tools and course of Kimchi – a fermented vegetable dish fashionable in Korea.
The plans triggered dozens of objections who expressed concern over the true nature of the venture, given the impractical location for a business unit on the prime of a steep hill off a slim lane.
The transfer was branded a ‘ruse’ to construct a big household house – which might boast beautiful views over the Chilterns – by way of backdoor planning loopholes.
‘As an instance how dishonest they’re, on the plan that was submitted [for the barn], it included plots 15 and 16 which they did not personal, they personal plot 14’, one resident stated.
They added: ‘They [the Ahmeds] are continuously deceiving and mendacity.
‘She claims she’s a farmer and being stopped from farming, she’s not a farmer. In case you had been a farmer you would not take sheep or goats in to these plots, there’s nothing for them to eat.
‘They’re fairly intentionally ignoring the principles and rules.’
Urusa disagreed, hitting again: ‘Why cannot we defend our land, why do these individuals assume they’ve a god given proper to stroll by our land and declare it as their land.
‘I’m making an attempt to maintain this place as pure as doable, for me, that is the place animals ought to be. Ultimately it [the livestock] can be a enterprise alternative.’
The Ahmeds declare it’s their ‘human proper’ to place up the fencing (pictured) bordering their land
Pictured: A gate to the Ahmed’s property in an picturesque rural Buckinghamshire
Urusa claims she and younger individuals she dropped at the woodland for actions had been racially abused by locals.
However that is fiercely denied by residents who say they’ve by no means seen any younger individuals on the web site and that it’s not even outfitted to host children, with no water supply or proof of sanitation.
Regardless of the continued disputes, one passer-by stated the Urusa ‘was at all times well mannered’.
The Ahmeds launched a retrospective planning software for the fence in July however this was thrown out by Buckingamshire Council. They’ve till January 1 to take away the fence except an enchantment is lodged towards it within the meantime.
Peter Strachan, Buckinghamshire Council’s Cupboard Member for Planning and Regeneration, stated: ‘In August 2024, we issued a planning enforcement discover requiring the removing of unauthorised improvement at this web site.
‘That discover is required to be complied with by 1 January 2025, except an enchantment is lodged towards it within the meantime. A duplicate of that discover could be discovered on our web site.
‘The appliance submitted underneath PL/24/1965/FA can be progressed to willpower within the meantime, and we’ll think about the implications dependant on the end result of that software.’
On the police incident, a spokesperson for Thames Valley Police stated: ‘We attended an incident of legal injury on Pednor Street, Chesham yesterday (17/9). We’re liaising with the council over the matter.’