Should This Lovely Building Be Pulled Down?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3044537/Farmer-given-90-days-tear-mock-Tudor-castle-built-without-planning-permission-hid-bales-hay.html

If I were his neighbour I would rather look on this lovely structure than the dozens of hay bales, blue tarpaulin and tyres I had been forced to look at for four years.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/18/08/27B0901C00000578-3044537-The_66_year_old_used_dozens_of_hay_bales_blue_tarpaulin_and_tyre-a-22_1429342303282.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/18/08/27B0903400000578-3044537-Robert_Fidler_has_lost_a_nine_year_legal_battle_to_save_a_dream_-a-9_1429342003769.jpg

[PankySmooch]

You've got to admit it is tacky, mock tudor and that castle turret.

Knock it down

[jno]

Medieval Tudor Georgian is a pretty rare architectural style; a shame the only one in the country has to be pulled down.

[baza]

Shame it has to come down, now if it was built on Dale Farm then he could have lived in it for years.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// I saw this building on a TV documentary about 18 months ago. It is, in my opinion, one of the ugliest dwellings I've ever seen on telly. ///

Really?

/// http://theconstructionindex.co.uk/assets/press/2011/02/1298454488_view-001-mfs.jpg ///

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/images/st%20pauls%20way%20housing%20development%202.jpg

[jackthehat]

That's not a dwelling, AOG.

[jackthehat]

Your second link wasn't there when I posted........

You may not like the Tower Hamlets development, but at least it was built with the proper permissions in place.

[Old_Geezer]

I have come across this story before.

I hate wanton destruction but one can not allow such blatant abuse of the rules. And no one has come up with a suitable alternative.

Maybe some American, disappointed at not being able to buy "London Bridge", may wish to dismantle it and ship it home ?

[EDDIE51]

AOG , still no replyto my question as to how you would feel if this 'lovely building ' was built by an immigrant to house a large family?

[Peter Pedant]

Aaaah it is lovely it is

and worth around half a mill ......

as retrocop says so often ( well he would wouldnt he he is an ex cop ) there are rules and we have to obey them...


Macca ( one of the delightful mop-headed Beatles ) was forced to pull down his secluded lakeside chalet because someone must have told .... no planning permission, (must have put in a bog)

[Peter Pedant]

// AOG , still no replyto my question as to how you would feel if this 'lovely building ' was built by an immigrant to house a large family?//

yeah lovely building and could be used to house a muslim wiv three wives ( yeah ) after all one of the Tudor kings had twice that many !
not palaces - wives

[jno]

your first link is to a nursery, aog (for children, not plants) - I'd have though a brightly coloured place like that would be very appropriate.

Though it'd need cleaning from time to time to get rid of dirt accumuilating in the crevices, and I bet nobody will bother

[EDDIE51]

If he did get planning permission the 10 acres of land he bought in 1986 would increase in value at least 10 x . It is classed as agricultural land but with a legally built house on it would be become classed as residential land worth a minimum of 10x as much! He would have gained a lot more than a £million house.

[EDDIE51]

Building land in Surry over £2.2 million an acre and he has 10 acres !
http://www.plotbrowser.com/plotbrowser.cgi?county=Surrey
If he had got away with it his land would have been worth about £25 million!!!.

[askyourgran]

The lengths he took to try to deceive everyone, flouting the planning laws, he knew he was in the wrong. I think he should be made to take it down. It is a lovely home, and such a shame. Was all that deceit worth it now?

[sp1814]

AOG

I would like you to confirm something, and I promise, I am not going to attack your answer.

Do you really think that Mr Fidler's home is 'lovely', or did you insert that word for...for...dramatic effect?

[sp1814]

And by the way - I don't think that the building you linked to is ugly. I have always like Piet Mondrian's work and I can see influences in the building design, so for me, that's a thumbs up.

I've seen much worse (Mr Fidler's Tudor/Gothic monstrosity springs to mind).

[EDDIE51]

I was sure that AOG was being sarcastic. In my view that house is hideous looks like it was built as part of a theme park!

[gness]

I like OG's solution and if Mr Fidler sees it he'll cop on and be quids in...x