[Madhatter]

No but you have a right to put a fence up thats 2 metres high on any boundary and anywhere inside your garden that doesn't form a boundary with a public highway. Saying that the wall will be a boundary, the hedge will be a boundary and a fence inside the hedge a boundary is idiotic and not true, you can not have more than one boundary, the boundary is the line at the edge of a property. Grow the hedge and then put the fence up, nobody will even know it's there.

My ex inlaws have had a massive conservatory built and they didn't need planning permission. I'm not convinced on that one, as I thought a conservatory was classed as an extension.

An extension needs permision willow, but I doubt you'd have stopped it, loss of view is a reason to stop it, design is, but just because you can see it is not. I've objected to a three story house being built opposite these three story flats, they'll be able to see right in, Ithey still got permision. Dread to think what they'll make of the bloke upstairs watching his porn films or me wlaking round half naked.