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If residents want to build a new house, extension, or shed on a property, there are many procedures and steps to follow. As well as applying for a permit for the building, you may need a planning permit if you must remove vegetation to start your building project. Part of the permit may require you to do offset planting as part of a revegetation plan to replant specific number of plants and trees, to offset the vegetation that has been removed.
See page 9.

Annie Cocking was born in about 1847 in Weston, a small hamlet in Nottinghamshire. She was the eldest of ten children. Her father farmed 30 acres, but according to the census returns, Annie seemed to have grown up with her mother’s sister and her husband, a blacksmith, at East Retford, a few miles north of Weston.

Frederick Sheard was born on 29 Feb 1848 at Rawdon, Yorkshire. His parents were woollen weavers, and he had three sisters. Today Rawdon is part of Leeds. By age 13, Fred was an errand boy, and ten years later, in 1871, he was working as a groom at stables of a farmer east of Leeds. Annie Cocking had found work at the same farm as a laundry maid.

Read their sad story on pages 18 – 19.