I built a tiny shed in my parking space & was told it would be okay…but I've been ordered to tear it down – I need it | The Sun
A FORMER nurse has been told to tear down a tiny shed built in the parking space outside her home.
Dot Slater, 83, insists she needs the makeshift shack to store her mobility scooter in Colwyn Bay, north Wales.
Grandma-of-three Mrs Slater has claimed a member of staff running the site told her it would be fine.
But estate managers Emeritus Homes have now written to tell her to remove it, Wales Online reports.
The letter stated residents had complained about the outhouse.
Mrs Slater says both she and a neighbour need the shed to store their mobility scooters.
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The former nurse at Llandudno Hospital suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis.
She said: "I was told verbally I could put the shed there but then they denied saying it and I got a letter asking me to remove it.
"I'm 83 and I need it there.
"My scooter had been under a sheet outside for 12 months before then and this shed has been up for five weeks – two of us use it and it has a padlock."
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Her letter from Emeritus Homes says any additions to the site need written permission in advance from the landlord – and that there had been criticism of the shed's "appearance and size".
Sun Online has approached Manchester-based Emeritus Homes for comment.
Other recent rows over parking spaces have included a pensioner complaining he can't even get out of his own driveway in Dudley, in the West Midlands – with selfish drivers ruining his wife's funeral.
Locals in Ely in Cambridgeshire are fighting a council's plans to paint yellow lines in front of a proposed Wetherspoon pub, ripping out their parking.
And a retired homeowner in Hendon in north London has accused a neighbour of illegally subletting his garage to "nightmare tenants" who are making life "hell" for him and his wife.
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