In our club we found about a bye-law after a new neighbour complained about the position of the loft of one of our members. Apparently after October 2007 a local law was passed that all lofts had to be not one but two metres away from any fence! (basically in the middle of the garden). Luckily he had a write up in the BHW with a picture after a good YB result that was the only proof that he could find that his loft was there for YB racing 2007, therefore okay, but he lost a lot of sleep over it.
My point is that it is so difficult to keep up with these things. He was new to the area. None of us new about the change. It's not as though they are very well advertised?