A cancer survivor was ordered to repaint her pink front door after 33 years when a mystery neighbour complained to the council.
Janine Renshaw-Beauchamp, 70, has lived in a listed property in Cirencester for three decades and says she has nearly always had the door painted bright pink.
She painted it when she moved in and has had it that way ever since, apart from a two-year period when she changed it to red for Christmas.
But recently a letter from Cotswold District Council ordered her to paint it a more 'neutral' colour because it was 'causing harm to the conservation area'.
Ms Renshaw-Beauchamp, a divorced administrator, was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, when she says the door became a 'sod off' to the disease.
Janine Renshaw-Beauchamp, 70, has lived in this listed property in Cirencester for three decades and says she has nearly always had the door painted bright pink
She said: 'I did it pink 30 years ago because I love the colour.
'But now it is my symbol for those that I've loved and lost, and those who are struggling with the condition.
'I like the pink door because I've had cancer and it's my sort of beacon for all of us really.
'I can't run for charity or anything like that, this is may way of saying 'sod off, cancer'.
'It's for those that have had it, those that have it, and those that are no longer with us.'
She doesn't know who submitted the council complaint, but says she has her suspicions, adding that if may have been a 'new neighbour' or the result of a 'heavy-handed newbie' at the council 'flexing their muscles'.
She added: 'The letter came on Thursday and that's when it really started.
But recently a letter from Cotswold District Council ordered her to paint it a more 'neutral' colour because it was 'causing harm to the conservation area'
