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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...
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Oliver Schick
What I love about this story, which has run and run, is how he hid the house behind a haystack for a long time.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/farmer-who-hid-illegallybuilt-castle-behind-haystack-now-faces-jail-despite-claiming-it-is-home-to-a3110551.html