02GF74
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 12:31 PM |
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cheeky locoster
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.
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Howlor
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 12:35 PM |
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Brilliant I hope he wins the battle.
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emsfactory
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 12:36 PM |
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That is fantastic!!!
Gumption.
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worX
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 01:01 PM |
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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
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UncleFista
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 01:06 PM |
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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 
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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Bluemoon
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 01:10 PM |
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I remember a similar case some time ago, they will make him pull it down...
Dan
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BenB
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 01:16 PM |
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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!!
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02GF74
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 01:28 PM |
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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 .....
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onzarob
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 02:40 PM |
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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
Here here....I know the system sucks but it there for a reason
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Benzine
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 02:59 PM |
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didn't someone once build a house inside a barn in a similar effort to bypass laws?
Castle looks awful imho 
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indykid
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 05:52 PM |
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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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Delinquent
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 07:26 PM |
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quote:
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
yes, and they succeeded. Not for the first time either! He used to live 2 doors down from my parents - That time he got permission to build an
agricultural dwelling to support a chicken farm (a large shed full of chickens) which strangely all died only a few weeks after the house was
finished. To get around planning he then just continued to live in it for a couple of years and then sold it on.
The barn job he did - well that hasn't worked out quite so successfully - last I heard they agreed there was nothing they could do about the
dwelling inside the barn - however they slapped an order on the barn saying it could not be altered or demolished, so he now has a nice brick house in
a sealed barn without windows
Funny thing is, neighbours complained almost weekly that something was going on - large deliveries of bricks and the like. Every time the inspectors
arrived the "barn" was 3/4 full of haybales for the horses that were standing in the garden...
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zilspeed
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| posted on 24/1/08 at 07:27 PM |
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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...
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