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If I remember correctly, he bought the salvaged stained glass dome from Brighton's West Pier and added that above the stairs. So I hope they don't make him literally take a wrecking ball to it.

He thought he was being clever by hiding it for 4 years (so that planning permission would be automatically retrospectively granted) but the judge decided that the hay bales were integral to the build and the building hadn't been completed until the hay bales were removed. Therefore it's not been 4 years since completion and so it doesn't qualify for retrospective planning. He didn't see that coming did he...

I hate to be a pedant. But. The Standard has this wrong. He surrounded it with straw bales, which does not a haystack make. Structurally speaking a haystack doesn't involve bales, it involves a large pile of packed hay, often with a roof. A pile of bales is a pile of bales.

I'm not sure if a haystack made with straw is actually a strawstack or if it can legitimately be called a haystack.