The gates in Oxhey Lane (Photo: Google Maps) Six-foot-high gates outside a home in Harrow could be removed after the council refused retrospective planning permission for their installation. Harrow Council’s planning committee voted in favour of officers’ recommendation to deny permission for the 1.9-metre (6ft 2in) gates at Ayman Lodge, in Oxhey Lane, Pinner. A presentation to the committee described the gates, which were put up without approval, as “incongruous” and “unsympathetic” to the area. Officers added they were “inappropriate” for a site situated on green belt land and could be “harmful” to the rural nature of the surrounds.