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'illegal' mock-Tudor castle he tried to hide behind 40ft hay bales
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From the link in the first post -
"After building the castle on the site of two grain silos at a cost of £50,000, he and his wife Linda went to extraordinary lengths to keep it secret."
OK - but according to The Guardian, here are some quotes from Fidler himself:Fidler built the two towers of his castle around two grain silos, and makes this sound like a remarkably practical decision. "Initially, I've got to get it up as quick as possible and I've got four corn silos that are doing nothing because we've stopped growing corn, when they're empty they weigh nothing," he explains. "So I just got my big excavator and picked them up one at a time and put one here and one there. They immediately gave me a downstairs and upstairs room just by putting a floor in."
http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/feb/06/farmers-secret-castle-planning-dispute0 -
Could you all please not post on this thread Until its actually being knocked down, when i'm sure it'll be on the main news. (if that ever happens)
It may well be on the news again in the future, but it will never ever be knocked down. Mr Fidler has won.
Oh and just to prove someone correct who a few years ago predicted this question would still be being asked in a few years time...
Is it still there?!?!?!?!?!
My prediction today is this question will still be being asked in years to come, and it will still indeed be there!The thing about chaos is, it's fair.0 -
Mr Fiddler is on the lunchtime news on BBC, they say he may go to prison.0
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Why are you calling him "Mr"? That's an honorific title you only use if you want to be respectful to someone. Call him Fidler; he's a selfish idiot who has cost us all vast amounts of money to try and profit himself. He doesn't deserve respect.0
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Some victory...It may well be on the news again in the future, but it will never ever be knocked down. Mr Fidler has won.
The house is still there, yes - but only by a very thin thread, and all the strands are going "ping", one by one.
He's even got to the desperation of "selling" it, so it's not his any more anyway. Except that's not worked.
His contempt when it comes to the courts is about to really catch up with him.
So what kind of "victory" leaves him approaching bankruptcy from legal fees, no longer the legal owner of the property, AND about to lose his freedom?0 -
Perhaps it's better to respect everyone as human beings.
Being deliberately disrespectful brings people down to a lower level of behaviour than necessary and serves no useful purpose.
If he's in contempt, he should take whatever penalty the court determines, but whether it's 7 days or 7 years, £700 or £70k, whether he's a Mr won't make a scrap of difference.0 -
Some victory...
The house is still there, yes - but only by a very thin thread, and all the strands are going "ping", one by one.
He's even got to the desperation of "selling" it, so it's not his any more anyway. Except that's not worked.
His contempt when it comes to the courts is about to really catch up with him.
So what kind of "victory" leaves him approaching bankruptcy from legal fees, no longer the legal owner of the property, AND about to lose his freedom?
Sorry but all these same things have been said for many years now.
"The house is still there, yes - but only by a very thin thread, and all the strands are going "ping", one by one."
In a few years time the same things will be being said over and over.
All the time he is laughing in his castle
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Mr Fiddler seems to be facing D-Day - the court has ruled that if it hasn't been knocked down by June 6th 2016 he'll go to prison.
http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/BREAKING-High-Court-order-Salfords-farmer-Robert/story-28141407-detail/story.html#ixzz3r0khLCNC0 -
Another 8 months? That seems unduly lenient. It could be knocked down in weeks.abankerbutnotafatcat wrote: »Mr Fiddler seems to be facing D-Day - the court has ruled that if it hasn't been knocked down by June 6th 2016 he'll go to prison.
http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/BREAKING-High-Court-order-Salfords-farmer-Robert/story-28141407-detail/story.html#ixzz3r0khLCNCChanging the world, one sarcastic comment at a time.0
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