Damned Designs ch4
Discussion
Bungleaio said:
...As for the eco mentalist sending the council that song 
- last seen relaxing in the outdoor hot tub. Heated by....?He was a chancer par excellance - having a meeting with the CEO of the council (bet that made his day) and pleading all sorts 'cos it's sustainable and eco (including the caravan + campervan?). Referring to the bairn as newborn (at 2.5 years old).
Shame he received two more enforcement notices.
The Don of Croy said:
garyhun said:
My dad has not built before so was not aware the property was 50% larger than planning allowed.
Yes of course love!
Do theses people think the planners were born yesterday?
He's just a layman - how could he interpret plans or drawings without specialist knowledge?Yes of course love!
Do theses people think the planners were born yesterday?
It's not as if he came from an industry reliant on measuring...
The shed they were building was so devoid of 'design' as to be wilfully unpleasant. Add to that the scale of it and it would have been quite monstrous had it been allowed.
Also, builders do not make such mistakes.
The whole 50% increase was a conscious decision by all involved.
Yep I didn't really understand what the pub's council were granting the temporary 9 month reprieve from. He'd done absolutely nothing about dealing with the matter since the previous enforcement notice, what made them think he'd do in the new 9 month period? And doesn't it still have to come down then so why prolong it? Surprised that Licensing or the local police hadn't kicked off about the unexpected increase in capacity? They would have done in my borough. My guess was that he was another chancer, knew full well he needed planning permission, but was hoping to show a year's trading at higher capacity than previous years and use that to sell the pub/licence at an inflated price to someone else and then run off with the cash, leaving someone else to deal with it.
Eco boy needed to take a look at himself and put his wife and kid first instead, then maybe she wouldn't have left him.
Big house guy clearing off to India and using that as an excuse was not good enough but then neither was the bloke from the council who bleated "we don't have the resources to police this sort of thing" at one point. Yes you do mate otherwise your entire raison d'etre is in question, if you're not going to get off your bum and measure something then why exist at all. Honestly it can't take more than an hour or two to pop up in a van with a tape measure and see that it is widely out. Shameful.
Seeing how quickly the overgrown house came down it looked like it was really shoddily built!
Eco boy needed to take a look at himself and put his wife and kid first instead, then maybe she wouldn't have left him.
Big house guy clearing off to India and using that as an excuse was not good enough but then neither was the bloke from the council who bleated "we don't have the resources to police this sort of thing" at one point. Yes you do mate otherwise your entire raison d'etre is in question, if you're not going to get off your bum and measure something then why exist at all. Honestly it can't take more than an hour or two to pop up in a van with a tape measure and see that it is widely out. Shameful.
Seeing how quickly the overgrown house came down it looked like it was really shoddily built!
The Don of Croy said:
He's just a layman - how could he interpret plans or drawings without specialist knowledge?
It's not as if he came from an industry reliant on measuring...
Do you think he just blithely signed the cheques for 55% more bricks and months of extra builders' time as well without knowing?It's not as if he came from an industry reliant on measuring...
Or perhaps the builder was so kind they just took that hit on extra material and time themselves. A rare thing!
In reality there had to be two sets of plans and two sets of budgets, however rough and ready these things were. Of course he knew, layman or not.
kwit! Just because the component parts have travelled from Canada then assembled into a house over here, does not make it a "mobile" home! Utter tosser!Centurion07 said:
Am I alone in wondering how the hell these people can stand in front of a camera and say "I'm in the right and I should be left in peace"?!! I just can't get my head around that mindset when they are so blatantly in the wrong. 
Just as well we don't all have 'that' mindset or we'd all be out building across this green-and-pleasant land. 
As for this other bloke in Walthamstow....wow, just wow. 
That's a bit of an anomoly in the law there that planning permission can be granted for another building on the same land to a person who has shown that they have no regard for planning law already. He even had the cheek to say he undertands planning laws need to be adhered to.
That's a bit of an anomoly in the law there that planning permission can be granted for another building on the same land to a person who has shown that they have no regard for planning law already. He even had the cheek to say he undertands planning laws need to be adhered to.
Centurion07 said:
As for this other bloke in Walthamstow....wow, just wow.
That's a bit of an anomoly in the law there that planning permission can be granted for another building on the same land to a person who has shown that they have no regard for planning law already. He even had the cheek to say he undertands planning laws need to be adhered to.
It's actually in Chingford and happens to be my parents road. On the basis of what I saw this evening I formed the view that this was one of the most poorly researched, funded and produced programmes of its type. That's a bit of an anomoly in the law there that planning permission can be granted for another building on the same land to a person who has shown that they have no regard for planning law already. He even had the cheek to say he undertands planning laws need to be adhered to.
There is a difference in my view between someone who inadvertently doesn't get the relevant consents, for whatever reason, and someone who knows they should have consent but doesn't bother or obtains consent and does something different. One needs help, the other needs to be taught a lesson. Without referring to any of the cases in this series.
A much better programme was the series last year that followed several planning departments.
Centurion07 said:
Am I alone in wondering how the hell these people can stand in front of a camera and say "I'm in the right and I should be left in peace"?!! I just can't get my head around that mindset when they are so blatantly in the wrong.
I guess it's not much different to people having been nicked for speeding and come on here asserting that they haven't done anything wrong.Edited by Sheepshanks on Tuesday 26th May 11:44
Got more than a bit fed up with this presentation of belligerent types wanting their own way - even if they know they've broken planning laws - because they think they have a greater right.
As for that ghastly 'chalet bungalow' in Chingford - what an eyesore. Even the garage-cum-annexe was appalling to look at...what is wrong with these people?
Gets repetitive and very annoying very quickly.
They should offer viewers the chance to operate the demolition machine after some easy quiz.
As for that ghastly 'chalet bungalow' in Chingford - what an eyesore. Even the garage-cum-annexe was appalling to look at...what is wrong with these people?
Gets repetitive and very annoying very quickly.
They should offer viewers the chance to operate the demolition machine after some easy quiz.
Kinda felt sorry for the guy with the straw house. If it was kept in good condition then youd imagine it would blend in with the scenary.
I guess what it does show is how long it takes for cases to go through courts and/or how either inefficient the council is, theyve got loads of cases on or just generally understaffed. Though i guess if they think they drag it out for the length of time, the less stubborn ones will give up and just do as their told?
I guess what it does show is how long it takes for cases to go through courts and/or how either inefficient the council is, theyve got loads of cases on or just generally understaffed. Though i guess if they think they drag it out for the length of time, the less stubborn ones will give up and just do as their told?
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