Elderly couple face having to rip down £4,500 fence because it’s the wrong colour

David and his wife Denise put up the fence for privacy (Picture: SWNS)

A retired couple have been ordered to rip down a £4,500 seven-foot-high fence they built to stop neighbours snooping into their garden.

David and Denise Hopwood, from Bolton, erected the 25 metre long, grey composite fence around their home for privacy and ease of maintenance.

It replaced an old, nine-foot-high hedge that they were finding difficult and expensive to maintain because of their age and disabilities.