A home owner faces having to rip up new garden decking after complaints it overlooked their neighbours bedrooms. The work at a house on Otterburn Gardens, in Bonnyrigg, was carried out without planning permission and drew objections from three other residents. And when the applicant applied for retrospective planning permission for the new decking it was rejected by Midlothian planners who said it breached their privacy rules. A report by planning officers said the work was ‘neat’ and could not be seen from the street, but it said it raised the garden, which was already on a slope and naturally raised, too high while reducing the fence between the house and neighbours to less than a metre high. They said of one neighbouring property: “The raised ground levels within the application site allowed for overlooking to the rear windows and some overlooking over the garden ground . “However, this overlooking is significantly increased as a result of the new deck and new low fencing (0.9m high) above the deck allowing for clear and direct views …