'illegal' mock-Tudor castle he tried to hide behind 40ft hay bales

planning_officer

roddydogs wrote: »

As i keep posting, will you let us know when the Bulldozers are moving in?

If you read my posts, it depends on whether he chooses to waste some more time by submitting a pointless appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. Plus the Council are not going to advertise when bulldozers would be going in anyway - it's not going to make the 10 o'clock news.... the first we hear of it will be when it is demolished. And I don't work for that particular Council, so I have no inside information on timescales!

BitterAndTwisted

harryhound wrote: »

Did anyone else watch Thursday night's "Dream Farm" on Channel 4?
It featured a youngish woman who had bought 14 acres and thought she could set it up as a llama breeding farm, completer wit some nice new wooden barn/sheds and a large "log cabin" as an instant farmhouse.

(I remember the goat boom of about 30 years ago, similar situation appears to have developed with llamas; where a prize winning baby llama is worth 15K.)

No wonder! Have you SEEN the price of alpaca?

harryhound

Its a bubble:
http://www.allthingsrural.co.uk/Alpacas+For+Sale
I also notice that there is VAT on them, this means they are not "real" farm animals, to that won't help the 14 acre "farmer" get planning permission for her log cabin - bit like puppy farming.
Note the prices for goats these days

BitterAndTwisted

The cheapest on that site you linked to were £350 plus VAT. People pay more than that for a pedigree dog and they can't sell their fleeces either. Well, not unless they shaved their poodles.

RDB

harryhound wrote: »

Its a bubble:
http://www.allthingsrural.co.uk/Alpacas+For+Sale
I also notice that there is VAT on them, this means they are not "real" farm animals, to that won't help the 14 acre "farmer" get planning permission for her log cabin - bit like puppy farming.
Note the prices for goats these days

Biy off topic (while we wait for the bulldosers) but the link is about Alpacas and the Woman trying to get away with the log cabin is breading Lamas.

Are they the same thing then?

Do you think she will get away with the log cabin/farmhouse?

harryhound

They are both camalids it would seem.
The bigger version:
http://www.britishllamasociety.org/Sale/Llamas%20for%20sale%20and%20llamas%20to%20buy.html

RDB

harryhound wrote: »

Here comes the compromise?
If he knocks down the existing dwelling, then he gets to pay top rate council tax on the new one?
Come to think of it relating to my local experience - presumably the local council is already trying to charge him council tax on both properties?

Sorry I still dont understand. Could someone explain.

So he has 2 houses one legal one not?

harryhound

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/mortgages-and-homes/article.html?in_article_id=487637&in_page_id=8

planning_officer

harryhound wrote: »

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/mortgages-and-homes/article.html?in_article_id=487637&in_page_id=8

I saw pictures of that house - it really was hideous - a huge rendered house crammed into a small plot, which completely dominated the surrounding cottages in the village.

planning_officer

RDB wrote: »

Sorry I still dont understand. Could someone explain.

So he has 2 houses one legal one not?

Yes, he already lived in the first house on the land (a lawful house!) and then chose to build another one (the unlawful one). So there's certainly no argument that he needed the second house, as he already had one there!