Demolish it and send him the bill
never mind building a car, how about your own castle!! (but you cannot race
it)
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Cheeky Fidler spent two years building his home behind the tarpaulin-covered hay. He moved in wife Linda, 39, and seven-year-old son Harry before it was finished.
He said: “Harry grew up looking at straw out of the windows. We thought it would be a boring view but in fact many birds nested in it.”
Council chiefs have now ordered Fidler to demolish the castle in Salfords, Surrey. But yesterday he launched a fight to save it at an inquiry.
Brilliant I hope he wins the battle.
That is fantastic!!!
Gumption.
He's not worried because he's done nothing wrong - that's why he built it and lived behind a wall of straw bales for four years!!!!
Steve
So he builds on green-belt land with no planning permission, hides the building under a tarp for 4 years to try get around the laws that apply to us
all, then says “The council are no different from vandals. I’m not worried as I don’t believe I’ve done anything wrong.”
Demolish it and send him the bill
I remember a similar case some time ago, they will make him pull it down...
Dan
I'd say "nice try" then pull it down.
If he could have got planning permission he would have rather than risk having it pulled down. Which means there was a reason why he couldn't
build....
.... like it was on green belt etc etc.
I doubt his neighbours were very happy when they discovered that the view they'd paid so much for had been obscured by a rather dubiously
designed "castle". Wiping thousands of the value of your neighbours property is not a good way to go ahead when the very best you can hope
for is a retrospective planning application!!
planning permissuon hahahahah .... there was case in out little towlet where somebody built a house and it was like 2 inches to close to the
neighbours or somethihg stupid like that, neighbours objected and the house had to be pulled down .... but all the bricks were used to build up an
alomst identical one again 
bonkers .....
quote:
Originally posted by UncleFista
So he builds on green-belt land with no planning permission, hides the building under a tarp for 4 years to try get around the laws that apply to us all, then says “The council are no different from vandals. I’m not worried as I don’t believe I’ve done anything wrong.”
Demolish it and send him the bill
didn't someone once build a house inside a barn in a similar effort to bypass laws?
Castle looks awful imho 
my dad tells us a story of someone he knew who built a house without windows or doors and put pigs in the ground floor.
it was then classed as an agricultural building and he didn't need the same planning permission. it later somehow gained windows and doors and
lost pigs in the 'barn conversion'
i still say they should pull the 'castle' down.
tom
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Originally posted by Benzine
didn't someone once build a house inside a barn in a similar effort to bypass laws?
Castle looks awful imho
That sort of thing used to be common. Old mansions etc. were bricked up because of the rates payable back then.
I am 100% reliably informed that the late Colin McRaes house at Jerviswood once suffered such ignominy. This from a friend who used to deliver to the
farmer who kept the pigs in it.
This is all 50 years before Colin's ownership of the place of course.
The things you learn on Locostbuilders...