Man builds sports centre....

[tim0409]

You would think he might have put a call into the planning department before starting.....

http://news.sky.com/story/1380176/grandad-must-bul...

[nightwalker]

Wow! Wow for the lack of planning and wow for such an awesome place to have, bet the grand kids love that!

He must be LOADED.

[BoRED S2upid]

That's superb I'd love that lot in my grounds. Shame he will be knocking it all down the fool.

[FourWheelDrift]

How can you pull down something that's mostly underground?

[Twilkes]

Anyone know what the 5 permitted development conditions are that he reckons he fulfils?

[Gareth79]

Twilkes said:

Anyone know what the 5 permitted development conditions are that he reckons he fulfils?

I think it's the first 5 bullet points here:

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/common...

Looking at some of the photos, it probably does fall under the 50% rule, possibly they have found it breaches in some other way.

Edited by Gareth79 on Tuesday 25th November 23:23

[vonuber]

Given the size of it, will be interesting to see if it complies with Building regs, especially the drainage element for surface water..

I don't get why people do this, what's so hard about just going through the planning process?

[Twilkes]

"Outbuildings and garages to be single storey with maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and maximum overall height of four metres with a dual pitched roof or three metres for any other roof."

The internal height looks way more than 4 metres, but in this case does height mean 'height above ground level'?

Actually, scratch that - photo 7 on the Sky News page shows a massive steel frame. From the Mail, the council had been advising him all the way through to apply for planning permission, but he disagreed.

Edited by Twilkes on Tuesday 25th November 23:39