Lyndsey Gagrica, from Nottingham, has been charged with criminal damage for painting her side of a fence white.
Her neighbours paid £80 for a wooden fence to sit on top of a wall in the front garden of their home - and £172 on council planning application fees. They planned to keep it brown.
Gagrica now faces court for her decorative actions.
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