A couple has vowed to defy a council order to tear down their £20,000 garden house just three years after it was installed. Catherine Curran and her partner Martin Keyes, from Greenock, were left stunned that council planners had refused retrospective planning consent for their two-metre high outbuilding.
![[Mr Keyes and his partner Catherine Curran have warned officers they will fight the decision all the way and 'under no circumstances' will the shed be coming down]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/20/93249377-14203161-image-a-22_1734468389067.jpg)
They have warned officers they will fight the decision all the way and 'under no circumstances' will the shed be coming down. Planning officers used delegated powers to knock back permission, claiming that the shed has a detrimental impact on a neighbouring property.
![['Treated like rubbish': The couple claim that the council did not inform them personally about the decision and that they instead read about it in the Greenock Telegraph]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/20/93249375-14203161-image-a-23_1734468393784.jpg)
Martin Keyes, aged 52, who lives in Gateside Grove with Catherine, said: 'They didn't even tell us that it had been refused. We found out in the Greenock Telegraph. 'It is absolutely ridiculous that we have been refused, it has been here for three years.
![[The council said there was a complaint recorded about the planning application prior to February 2022. Pictured: Mr Keyes inside the outbuilding]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/17/20/93249385-14203161-image-a-24_1734468399574.jpg)
'We have put in extra insulation to keep any noise in. It was professionally built and we were told we didn't need planning permission. 'But under no circumstances will we be taking it down. I will go to court and do what we can to fight the decision. Martin Keyes, from Greenock, Scotland, was left stunned that council planners refused retrospective planning consent for his £20,000 garden house.
Mr Keyes and his partner Catherine Curran have warned officers they will fight the decision all the way and 'under no circumstances' will the shed be coming down. 'I can promise you the shed is not coming down.'. The couple has used the outbuilding for social gatherings with friends and Catherine also likes to spend time there on her own.
