Pink Cottages No Longer Allowed Apparently !

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-23127907

You see pink and other coloured cottages all over the West Country. I can't see why the local council has kicked up such a fuss !

[boxtops]

It's horrible, it looks like taramasalata

[Barmaid]

I really want to like that ^^^^^ post.

[naomi24]

If you buy a house that's listed you have to abide by the rules. If you want to put your own stamp on a property, don't buy one that's listed. It's as simple as that.

[Gromit]

Balamory fans...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00013YQ8I.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[EDDIE51]

She has been given 3 years to repaint it, in that time the colour will have mellowed and no one will give it a second glance. Just leave it and get on with life.
In 3 years all this will be a distant memory.

[RATTER15]

I used to live in adjoining village to Kenford where this cottage is, I know the house but I dont remember it being quite so pink, I think the colour does need to be tamed down a little but other wise pink is fine with me, it is just a little OTT.

[jake-the-peg]

I dont think it will have mellowed Eddie

Looks like a chemical dye that's kind of the point.

Jeremy Irons also had a similar problem not with the council but with the locals

http://www.jeremy-irons.com/news/archive/92.html

[VHG]

>>>>seems mad you can't paint your own house in any colour you choose.

All the hotels in Llandudno, along the sea front, can only paint their hotels with certain shades of paint, and only a soft shade.

The town was built in Victorian times by the family who own the land and they control how the town looks.

Before you can paint your hotel you have to take a tin of the paint along to the owners of the town and make sure it matches their colour charts.

Photo of hotels along sea front here

http://www.lauristoncourt.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/llandudno.jpg

[emmie]

i would go for this, and have been there, glorious place, views, pink not my thing..

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.xlab.co.uk/photos/albums/santorini/imgs/oia-churches.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.travelpr.co.uk/2013/02/15/home-is-where-the-heart-is/&h=338&w=450&sz=59&tbnid=-S6tBViMXIJRJM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&zoom=1&;usg=__Kv_7rHgUNvZvUtYE_piLequbhsg=&docid=I3aSucJ_51CV4M&sa=X&ei=JG73UbjIGMrC0QWU8ICIDg&ved=0CHoQ9QEwBw&dur=323

[pixie373]

I think it's a little ridiculous, as paint is temporary and easily painted over, so seems a little over-the-top to me.

[emmie]

if it is a grade listed building, then you have to abide by the rules.

[AB Editor]

The pink will "bed in" over a few years - hopefully within 3.

[Chipchopper]

What the bureaucrats don't seem to realize is, the this is a traditional colour originally achieved by mixing whitewash and pigs blood or whitewash and sloes.
In time the colour will mellow, anyway!
On that prominent corner position, I think I'd want something with high visibility as well.

[weecalf]

So no Barbie houses in that part of England then