me too, but that's jobsworth's for you, they've nothing better to do than sit around making up ridiculous rules.
It's like the water bylaw that states your shower hose must go through a ring on the riser rail, apparently this is so that you can't leave the shower head in a bathful of dirty water and switched on, when someone further down the street could turn the water supply off, and in theory, the shower head could siphon the dirty bathwater into the mains pipes!! - how many times has that ever happened? answer: never, but there's a possibility it could and so it came into force, bearing this in mind, I am going to paint, 'don't crash here' on my roof to warn passing pilots and UFO's not to do their dirty buisness on my house :-)