A fuming resident has blasted the construction of a "hideous" new metal fence in her garden that has made her home feel like a "prison".
Debbie Knight, who lives in Littlehampton, West Sussex, said she feels like she is living near an "industrial estate" now that the acoustic 3.5metre barrier has been built to block out road noise.
Ms Knight told the Argus that the fence has already begun to rust and has devalued her home, while other annoyed residents in Highdown Drive and Amberley Close dubbed it 'The Great Wall of Littlehampton'.
According to the local paper, the fence was built to minimise noise coming from a new traffic arrangement that will see the Fitzalan Link Road join up with the new Lyminster bypass at the A259.
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Ms Knight said the gate's height is "massive" and wishes it were "better-looking".
"Our side [of the fence] that faces onto the garden is all rusty already, whereas the other side is like a gunmetal grey-black.
"It is more closed in than Ford prison to be fair.
"It is like living next to an industrial estate," she said.
Fuming residents experiencing the same ordeal of Ms Knight, if not worse because they don't have as big a garden as hers, have taken to Facebook to slam how high the barrier is.
One person writing in the 'Great Wall of Littlehampton' Facebook protest group, wrote: "What a difference a day makes, the prison wall has gone up!
"I've lived in Highdown Drive for 23 years and today is the saddest day."
Another raging resident commented branding the wall "an overkill" that "should never have been built". "
One blasted local councillors for allowing the fence to be built saying: "How classy is Littlehampton looking?!
"It makes me so angry that council officers and the councillors who voted for this think this is acceptable. I wonder if this is how they envisaged it would look.
"I wonder how they would feel with this at the back of their houses?!?"
A post at the top of the page dating back to April 10, however, points out how the protest group isn't calling for the fence's removal but for it to be merely lowered.
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"Just to make it clear - We all agree the fence should be there.... We want the fence lowered to 2.5 metres which was agreed on the original planning permission," the post reads.
An Arun District Council spokesman said in a statement to the news outlet: "The fence is being built in accordance with approved planning permission and is intended to keep any noise generated by traffic using the new road to within acceptable limits.
"We appreciate the concerns of residents and have commissioned an independent report to look at all options and will consider the findings of that report as soon as we have them."
