A council has called on a homeowner to tear down the Berlin Wall – or at least the chunk of it in his back garden – because it is ‘oppressive’.
Steven Thorpe, 65, bought a section of the notorious wall from a German farmer and put it up behind his Herne Hill, south London, home earlier this year.
But irate neighbours – who said they could see the top of the wall from their properties – complained to Southwark Council, which said tearing down the wall was the ‘only option available’.
A planning case officer wrote to Mr Thorpe on July 2 saying
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