Over not conforming to council planning regs It's nineteen inches too wide, apparently, and needs to be demolished. Where's the compromise here, West Norfolk council / homeowner? There must surely be a way out of this stand-off. http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/upda...ouncil-confirm-dream-home-will-be-demolished/ Plus it's near Wisbech Nobody in their right mind wants too much to do with Wisbech!
Oh ffs just give him a few thousand pound fine, making him knock the bloody thing down is bureaucracy gone mad. It's not like he didn't get planning permission. Just another load of dickheads pissing on us from on high!
To be fair he was probably measuring using 6 fingers over the whole length of the building that'd probably equal 19 inches
On face value 19 inches sounds petty but with the plans in place and the precision that things can be built/made they have tried to take a liberty and got caught. If everyone sneeks a foot here a meter there, when does it become 2 or maybe 3? Rules is rules, if the builders made the cock up then seek compensation there. But if they took the decision to take the extra space, and they have not done anything since being told to adjust to what they had permission for, then no sympathy. should I have got away with speeding because I went just over, I new the limit, but I choose to exceed it. More folk who are crying after getting Caught with there fingers in the cookie jar! Being a traveller it doesn't surprise me that he thought the rules would not apply to him. Go pen pushers! Bah!
Agreed GM, seems like he had to battle to get permission anyway and took advantage of the council granting an exception. Not an once of sympathy from me.
It's made from modular buildings it's not a house they built from scratch, if you look at photos there's not much around them and plenty of land either side. On the face of it I agree about no sympathy BUT is it really necessary to waste money doing this when a nice fat fine would work as a good example to others. By the way they sent the builders in today to smash the place up and now the council has made them homeless they have to put them up in b&b WASTE OF COUNCIL TAX PAYERS MONEY
Well maybe I'm in the minority (or so it seems), but I think this is utterly fecking ridiculous! They certainly have my sympathy. I've had dealings with council planners, and I'm sure they loved this. It's just a few inches ffs! I can't imagine they were that desperate to add to the width, probably just a minor error, but knock it down?! They also have my sympathy for living near Wisbech.
