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| Subject: Rights violation: Secret Tudor castle at centre of planning row is demolished Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:49 pm | |
| Just a few months ago it was one of the most impressive houses in its particular corner of Surrey.
Now, after a bitter nine-year planning battle, this is all that remains of Robert Fidler's dream home.
The mock Tudor 'castle' thought to have been worth in the region of £1million is just a pile of rubble after Mr Fidler obeyed a court order to demolish it rather than face jail.
He had managed to conceal the construction of his striking home in 2000 by hiding it behind a wall of hay bales on his farm in Salfords.
However, once Reigate and Banstead Borough Council discovered the building – which was put up without planning permission on green belt land – the farmer was ordered to knock it down.
That was nine years ago – and the once-grand home has now finally been razed after Mr Fidler, a 67-year-old grandfather of 11, was threatened with a prison sentence.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3624516/Reduced-rubble-Secret-Tudor-castle-centre-planning-row-finally-demolished-nine-years.html |
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