Neighbours dispute played out in fiery council meeting

The chalet is used to run Truck Protect, which sells a gadget designed by Mr Fowler's brother which prevents thieves from stealing fuel from lorries.
Tensions ran high at a public meeting of SBDC's planning committee on Wednesday, October 22 when Mr Fowler accused neighbour Philip Coulson of "a pernicious personal vendetta ... in which he has presented complete lies, fabrications, unfair and illogical inferences and incomplete data."
Mr Fowler had claimed that nobody is employed by the company outside of family members, but neighbours had presented photographs which Mr Coulson said proved that a woman worked there for eight hours a day three days a week.
Mr Coulson said: "We feel that the business isn't in keeping with the peaceful residential area."
Councillors had paid a surprise site visit on Wednesday morning and had discovered evidence that the property was being used not just for administration, but for storage of stock and for wrapping and for distribution, according to councillor Jennifer Woolveridge.
She said: "We know that there is a female who comes three days per week, we know that there are large amounts of stock in boxes, plus large amounts of packing material used for processing orders. The garage has been witnessed piled high with boxes. Witnesses have seen pallet loads of boxes being delivered. Goods are clearly being sold from the house and there's plainly quite a substantial business being run."
But Councillor Frank Bowater sided with the Fowlers. He said: "This is very difficult. I live next door to someone who runs his own business and I take in his boxes when he's not home. I'm not sure how large this business is... there are houses in my area where if there are children there are often six cars on the drive."
Mr Fowler said his family's lives had been made a misery and that his children's friends were afraid to visit the house for fear of being under surveillance.
He said: "I will take further legal advice and will be taking a file to the police."
He said that customers never visited the business, and that the only business visitors are his brother, his accountant, and his accountant's colleague. He said that the delivery witnessed was camera cases delivered by mistake and that accounting would be run off site in future.
Councillors voted five to four that Mr Fowler must move his business out of the chalet within a year.