A Hove couple have ordered to cover up their £3 million Hove house with cedar cladding.
Tim and Lucy Harding were told to finish the job by a planning inspector after they appealed against an enforcement notice served by Brighton and Hove City Council.
The notice was served because the council said that the couple had not built the house in Lloyd Road, Hove, in line with the planning permission that they were granted.
The enforcement notice also ordered the couple to alter the angle of their solar panels which were too steep and causing too much glare into a neighbour’s home.
Since the notice was served the couple have adjusted the panels and the planning inspector Graham Dudley has given them temporary planning permission for a year.
During that time, the level of glare will be monitored.
Mr Dudley, from the independent Planning Inspectorate, said that not having the cedar cladding “unacceptably harms the character and appearance of the surrounding area”.
The council said that its officers gave advice to the developers while the property was being built that the work should be carried out in accordance with the approved plans.
The advice was ignored, leaving too great an expanse of white rendering, according to the council.
Repeated attempts to negotiate a solution were also ignored, said the council, leaving it with no choice but to issue a notice in September when the house was on the market for £3 million.
