An angry Aberdeen pensioner has claimed daylight has been blocked from her home – after the city council built a 4ft fence outside without any consultation.
Sheena Sleith claims the new fence outside her home on Sunnybank Road completely blocks out the light into her living room.
And the 74-year-old is even more furious at the council for the move as it comes just 14 months after officers told her they had no funds to repair the fence in her back garden.
Mrs Sleith said she woke up earlier this month to find five council workmen putting up the structure without any “consultation” with residents.
It was only when Mrs Sleith’s neighbour complained that the men downed tools and left the job unfinished.
Now she is demanding that the new structure is dismantled.
Mrs Sleith, who contacted the council to repair her back fence to no avail after it fell down in stormy weather last November, said: “I’ve been a tenant here for 40 years and have paid council tax all my life, so I think I deserve better than this.
“I like looking out the window when I am doing my knitting. I am an old lady and I don’t get out that much.
“But now I can’t see anything out the window. I think this is very disrespectful of the council.
“What’s even worse is that they won’t come and fix the fence out the back because they ‘don’t have the funds’.
“They used new wood to build the new fence. With all the new wood and time from the workmen, that must have amounted to a fair sum.
“You couldn’t make it up.”
Mrs Sleith has taken her complaint to the council but the fence remains in place.
Yesterday, a spokesman for the council said they were looking into Mrs Sleith’s complaint and that appropriate action would be taken.