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

G_M

Loopgames wrote: »

For four years no one complained about the sight of the 40ft hay stack and then comoplain at the sight of their home...people are not making any sense.

As an MP I spent 4 years claiming expenses for a mortgage on a house I did not own and no one complained at the sight of the trough I ate at each night on the proceeds. And then they complained at the sight of the documents showing what I'd done.....people are not making any sense.

dodger1

Loopgames wrote: »

For four years no one complained about the sight of the 40ft hay stack and then comoplain at the sight of their home...people are not making any sense.

A hay stack or barn in a rural setting looks fine, a large house doesn't.

sabretoothtigger

^^ I said ages ago, put the hay back permanently. Problem solved, tough luck if he wanted any windows

Years ago we had a window tax and people choose to brick them up to reduce their burden.
Seems we havent evolved much and its a fair solution now still with no need for waste imo

G_M wrote: »

As an MP I spent 4 years claiming expenses for a mortgage on a house I did not own and no one complained at the sight of the trough I ate at each night on the proceeds. And then they complained at the sight of the documents showing what I'd done.....people are not making any sense.

:rotfl:

Theone1_2

MrsE wrote: »

I live nearish to the castle (I drive past it daily to work).

Doesn't bother me in the slightest.

People need homes & I would rather see people allowed to build individual homes on their own land, than Barrett style housing estates.

Can you tell us is it sill there? It should have been torn down by now?

Has he got away with it?

Patr100

Can people stop asking and bumpin this thread with " has he got away with it?" It's gettin really tedious.
When the legal procedures have been exhausted then we I'm sure we will hear an outcome eventually.

t1gger

Has he got away with it?

sabretoothtigger

Yes since 2002 he has got away with it :T


Wish I had enough land so that no one could view the house I built. Maybe a natural cove would be secluded enough with some leylandii in front

extraordinary lengths to keep it secret. That included keeping their son Harry, now seven, away from playschool the day he was supposed to do a painting of his home in class.

harryhound

If the planning department can be bothered, the spy in the sky used by Google/Microsoft is all that is required.
The "area payments", a common agricultural subsidy to land owners that costs you 10's of pounds a week, are said to be accurate to something the size of a sheet of A4 paper (hence the arguments with farmers over the claimed size/location of their fields).
Big Brother is watching you.
You might be able to get away with it as a cave dweller.

harryhound

Patr100 wrote: »

Can people stop asking and bumpin this thread with " has he got away with it?" It's gettin really tedious.
When the legal procedures have been exhausted then we I'm sure we will hear an outcome eventually.

In your dreams?!?

Here is a sympathetic article about a planning tussle that started it claims 10 years ago. (my sources suggest that the "illegal" scrap yard sold out more like 15 years ago and the initial mobile park homes, on the site of the original farm buildings, were given planning permission; which created a "moths to the flame" effect ?),

"Dale Farm" is the most notorious of several traveller developments in the Basildon area.

For those comfortable suburban people, this is the sharp end of global migration.
When there is a clearance, using tracked vehicles with "infantry support" in high viz jackets, the scene and feeling is like something from Nazi Germany or modern day greater Israel.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/25/dale-farm-travellers-eviction-basildon

sabretoothtigger

harryhound wrote: »

If the planning department can be bothered, the spy in the sky used by Google/Microsoft is all that is required..

Im not sure they would be bothered, I think the inefficiency of government can be relied on in most cases not to overinforce except where they get money for it.
Its mostly moaning passer bys who initiate this kind of thing I think

Anyway a thick brush of Leylandi cut at ground level to give a good view would do the job well enough, or get one of those roofs covered with grass