Mind you that could be a challenge within Rochdale Council Emails objecting to a house extension failed to reach a council planning department because their computer system blocked the word "erection".
Commercial lawyer Ray Kennedy, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, claims he sent three emails to Rochdale council complaining about his neighbour's plans.
But the first two messages, which contained the word "erection", failed to reach the planning department because the software on the town hall's computer system deemed them offensive.
When his third email, containing the same word, somehow squeezed through it was too late. A planning officer told Mr Kennedy that his next-door neighbour's proposals had already been given the go ahead.
The software used by Rochdale council is designed to filter out any obscene material and thought the word "erection" - used by Mr Kennedy in the context of building an extension - was a sexual term.
Now the lawyer, who lives on Sunny Brow Road, is considering complaining to the local government ombudsman over the blunder.
A spokesman for Rochdale council said: "The software that protects the council's email system from spam and other offensive material is not designed by the council and we do not control which words are blocked.
"We will be writing to the resident to apologise for the failure of his emails to get through."
But another council spokesman said he was still trying to shed light on the matter to see whether another word used in the first two emails could be to blame.
To his knowledge, no other complaint of this kind had been lodged to the council.
"This cannot be the first time the word [erection] has been used in emails to and from the council," he said.
"It is a word of common parlance in terms of planning issues."
Mr Kennedy could not be reached for comment.
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