"I've never broken any laws or done anything wrong. The only thing I've done is look after my family."
Well, this was the High Court - presumably because he had refused to abide by the planning judgment. I imagine he could apply for leave to appeal, and then (presumably) there's the Supreme Court. If he can afford it.
I hope that there is some provision in that case whereby the house can be put beyond his use, but preserved for the benefit of the bats and newts.
Or perhaps as a venue for the re-enactment of popular television series and associated critical debate?
Just like a murderer has never done anything wrong until he murders.
He's probably regarding what he has done as "not breaking any laws", too, though. "Oh, yes, but that's only planning regulations".
Building a house is not inherently against the law, but there are myriads of ways in which you can break the law in the process - off the top of my head, you could fraudulently obtain the goods and services to build it with, build it not in accordance with planning permissions, or in contravention of building regulations, you could commit health and safety breaches in the course of building it, destroy wildlife or flora in contravention of various Acts of Parliament.
Leaving aside the question of whether costing the state is the most important criterion in deciding what to do, what do we do with someone who has, from the sound of it, quite deliberately set out to flout the planning rules, and appears to be unrepentant - given that the row is still going on 9 years later - about remedying that?
I found it a bit hit and miss after season 1. Worth watching the whole thing just for the first few episodes of season 3 though.it was remade to great and deserved acclaim and has eclipsed the pony of the former one. 'Battlestar Galactica' used to be the subject of geek mirth, the butt of the joke etc
no longer
Oh, here we go!
Apart from the fat suit obviously.
He said "breaking any laws or done anything wrong".
Looking at the comments on the Guardian story, there's quite a few variations on the "he built his own house on his own land" theme. Some people just don't seem to get it...but I wonder how they'd feel if completely unregulated buildings were going up in their metaphorical back yard?
It's not even just that. He undermined the whole basis of the green belt. It's the hate crime of planning indiscretions.
And the general idea is that he needs to be lacking a castle in fairly short order...Here's the twat
So it isn't just me who thinks it's hideous? Those fucking great "towers", whose diameter is similar to their height, not to mention the (rather poor) fake mullioned windows...
Why don't you fuck of you patronising cunt. So I'm dyslexic so fucking what. I've fucking had it with all the cunts on here making fun of my because of my disability. Just fuck of the lot of you.
Apologies. I thought it was one of those auto-correct moments
that has got to be the post of the thread!
