Why, you built your house without permission, it must be destroyed!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080125/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_castle
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080125/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_castle
He built in an area where he legally couldn't do so without first obtaining permission of the local government board. He failed to do that, and built anyway. He also built the house in a greenway, which in Britain are heavily restricted.
That would be "Codes, Covenants & Restrictions".It sounds like the problem was in the CC&R, and that's where it should have been handled.
It was my impression that he was the land owner, not someone "invading and claiming" a wetland or conservation area. So that seems more of a zoning and use restriction, usually covered under CC&R (or the British equivelant) for the area.Do you think you'd get a pass if you decided that you wanted a new house, didn't want to jump through the hoops, and were REALLY enamored with a particular area that just happened to be a recognized wetlands?
It REALLY aggravates me when I see someone who consciously and willfully breaks the law, tries to hide behind a loophole to get around the law, and everyone rushes to his aid because he's just some poor little downtrodden individual beset upon by the faceless monster that is government.
The scary thing is that there are people who think those European countries are the "civilized ones" and we should strive to be like them.
Fidler's wife Linda told the Daily Mail newspaper the children grew up looking at straw out of the windows of the house and that they kept their son away from playschool on the day his class were due to do paintings of their houses.
"We couldn't have him drawing a big blue haystack," she said. "People might ask questions."