Overview
- Monmouthshire County Council's planning committee refused the retrospective application and instructed the household to remove the front boundary fence.
- The timber fence on St Lawrence Road reaches 1.98m, replaced a hedge, and was built between February and April before a retrospective bid in August.
- Planning officers said the structure harms visual amenity and the open character at a key approach to Chepstow, with officer Philip Thomas noting its prominence.
- Ecological measures were deemed inadequate after the hedge removal, with a proposed bird box and bug hotel falling short of expected mitigation.
- The proposal had backing from Cllr Paul Pavia, Chepstow Town Council, and the sole responding neighbor; highways officials and the Welsh Government raised no objection, and the vote recorded three members opposing refusal with one abstention.