A brother and sister are at battle with their native council after erecting an unlawful fence via 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 giant 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 at some point 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 felony 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 giant sections of the fence down
Pictured: The fence via 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 latest 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 giant sections of the fence down.
The assaults got here to a head on Tuesday when police had been referred to 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 felony’ additionally function, and one other – since eliminated – warned the general public the realm was a ‘capturing vary’, regardless of the household holding goats and sheep on the land.
Urusa instructed MailOnline: ‘Everyone has the suitable, it’s a human proper, to fence off your land, particularly when persons are trespassing.
‘The land is like all over the 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 cause why the council is not going to enable us to have fences? What is the distinction between us and the remainder of the folks right here?
‘Why cannot folks have livestock in agricultural land, and when you have livestock, how are you going to anticipate us to guard them.
‘There are males coming in with canines, large canines, intentionally attempting to intimidate me.’
The Ahmeds bought 4 of sixteen plots in July 2003 for round £20,000 every from a agency referred to as Land For Funding, based mostly in Ealing, West London.
Urusa Ahmed mentioned the council had no ‘good cause’ 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 aren’t permitted to place up
Pictured: A safety digicam 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 utility to construct a Kimchi farm on a bit of the plot.
Plans confirmed how he needed to make use of the land for rising Chinese language cabbage to produce to supermarkets, with a big barn, the dimensions of a 5 bed room home, used to retailer farming tools and course of Kimchi – a fermented vegetable dish standard in Korea.
The plans triggered dozens of objections, with locals expressing concern over the true nature of the undertaking 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 residence – which might boast gorgeous views over the Chilterns – through backdoor planning loopholes.
‘For example 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 mentioned.
They added: ‘They [the Ahmeds] are always deceiving and mendacity.
‘She claims she’s a farmer and being stopped from farming, she’s not a farmer. If you happen to 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 foundations and rules.’
Urusa disagreed, hitting again: ‘Why cannot we shield our land, why do these folks suppose they’ve a god given proper to stroll via our land and declare it as their land.
‘I’m attempting to maintain this place as pure as doable, for me, that is the place animals must 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 picturesque rural Buckinghamshire
Urusa claims she and younger folks she delivered to 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 folks on the web site and that it isn’t even outfitted to host children, with no water supply or proof of sanitation stations.
Regardless of the continued disputes, one passer-by mentioned Urusa ‘was all the time well mannered’.
The Ahmeds launched a retrospective planning utility 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 attraction is lodged towards it within the meantime.
Peter Strachan, Buckinghamshire Council’s Cupboard Member for Planning and Regeneration, mentioned: ‘In August 2024, we issued a planning enforcement discover requiring the removing of [an] unauthorised improvement at this web site.
‘That discover is required to be complied with by 1 January 2025, except an attraction is lodged towards it within the meantime. A duplicate of that discover may be discovered on our web site.
‘The applying submitted beneath PL/24/1965/FA can be progressed to dedication within the meantime, and we are going to think about the implications depending on the result of that utility.’
On the police incident, a spokesman for Thames Valley Police mentioned: ‘We attended an incident of felony harm on Pednor Street, Chesham yesterday (17/9). We’re liaising with the council over the matter.’
