BUSINESSWOMAN Paula Henry is pulling her hair out in frustration after becoming entangled in a planning row with Bury Council.

When Paula opened her barber shop, Chaps, in Water Street, Radcliffe, last summer, she successfully applied for a £3,000 council grant for signage on her shop.

Everything was going smoothly until a fortnight ago when she received a visit from senior planning officer (enforcement), Mohammad Sadiq.

"He told me the council had received a complaint from a member of the public saying that there were too many signs," she said.

"He said that because I had not got planning permission for the signs, I'd have to remove them." Paula explained that she had received a council grant, but to no avail.

"It's ridiculous and I'm not going to take the signs down," she said.

But a spokesman for Bury Council said: "We have no problem with the signage on the frontage or the work that was carried out with the use of grant funding which has been made available to enhance the appearance of Radcliffe generally.

"The difficulty is with a 10ft by 6ft gable-end sign which does not meet planning regulations and for which funding via the grant scheme was not allocated. If the proprietor applies for retrospective permission, the application would be duly considered."