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'illegal' mock-Tudor castle he tried to hide behind 40ft hay bales
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Really? The article says he had two more applications in?"One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
Because by then you've blown your chances. That's it."0 -
Obviously any change in the law won't be retrospective and Mr Fiddler would not qualify anyway.
The planning/building control system in England is in a shambles at the moment. "Sustainablilty" seems to be the buzzword. All sorts of sites that have been turned down for years are now back in with a chance; it is a traffic light system, basically if you can live there and walk to the local facilities you get a green, of you have to push bike or electric bike, your get a yellow and if you propose to get the car out, then you get a red. [I used to like in a green belt village where my l neighbour used to get his car out to collect the Sunday paper from the village shop, it was about 300 yards away. Perhaps it was his way of showing off the car that got washed and polished every Saturday]
There is also conflict with "Localism", so who knows what Mr Fiddler's local councillors might now think locally.
If he could Hellicopter his castle into my part of the green belt he might be greeted as a hero.
Obviously if you build a new model village it will automatically be "sustainable", though the secondary school and the railway station might prove a bit problematical.0 -
planning_officer wrote: »Er, no - the house has to be demolished by May this year and nothing is going to get Mr Fidler out of that one!
That was May 2009 btw, not 2013.
Funny how it's all gone a bit quiet?"One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
Because by then you've blown your chances. That's it."0 -
I'd often seen this thread pop up but never actually read it. Then today I was reading the local online paper and lo and behold I find that the castle is c 1 mile from where I live!!
So here's the update to the story:
http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/Salfords-farmer-s-covert-castle-rejected-council/story-18480029-detail/story.html#axzz2O5BEGqsZ0 -
Well he was "taking it to Europe" about 4 years back. I thought he'd already gone done that route?"One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
Because by then you've blown your chances. That's it."0 -
In another 4 years it will be the same story,"this time it will have to be knocked down" And another 4yrs time it will be the same story.
All the time, the truth is he has got away with it.0 -
abankerbutnotafatcat wrote: »I'd often seen this thread pop up but never actually read it. Then today I was reading the local online paper and lo and behold I find that the castle is c 1 mile from where I live!!
So here's the update to the story:
"Robert Fidler, who hid his secret citadel behind stacks of straw for four years before unveiling it to the world in 2006"
So it was built many years ago and completed in 2002, more than a decade ago. Then he lived in it for 4 years behind straw bales.
In 2006 and every year since then it has been said he will have to knock it down. It will still be being said in another decade.
He has got way with it.0 -
IzzyFreedman wrote: »"
In 2006 and every year since then it has been said he will have to knock it down. It will still be being said in another decade.
He has got way with it.
Since you have a crystal ball and can apparently tell the future, can we have next week's winning lottery numbers as well?
Ta.0 -
Is it still there? So is it now confirmed he has got away with it?0
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