Homeowners on an estate in Bury have been threatened with a £42 per day fine for painting their front doors a different colour.
Six households on the Hampstead Drive estate in Whitefield have been told they have two weeks to change their doors back to the original style or face penalties, which could add up to more than £15,000 over a year.
One household on the estate has repainted their door sky blue, while others have fitted new doors in a different style.
Hampstead Drive resident Frank Borson says he received an email from the property management company which looks after the estate about a fortnight ago after changing his front door from the original white to a dark green.
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The email reads: "The colours of front doors across site should remain as originally installed (white) to keep uniformity across the development.
"The green door would constitute a breach of the TP1 Transfer Document as this would be considered to be causing a nuisance."
Mr Borson was given a deadline of November 17 to carry out the work or face a £42 per day 'administration charge'.
The 79-year-old retired IT salesman who has lived in his four bed townhouse for the last 18 years, said there was 'no way' he was repainting his door.
He added: "To say the colour of someone's door is causing a nuisance is ridiculous.
"If it was in the rules then that's okay, but it's not.
"There's no way I am going to change it. Nobody is going to change it."
Property company Manchester Residential Management Ltd has been contacted for comment.
