Over a post lunch coffee public documents on the net provide more detail which shows what sort of guy the landowner is...
He applied for the new barn giving an address that corrupts the name of a nearby cottage (not his, he lives on a modern estate the other side of the village) to hint that there is already a farm in existance that's related to the application which of course there isn't. The proposed barn is a thumping great 100ftx36ft building (23ft high) which he intends to place right next to (and ruin in the process) a superbly located individual cottage down a private drive.
His access to the field seems to be over land owned by others (certainly no direct highway access) and he currently has no legal right to lay a water supply to the field/proposed barn.
The land has been used for grazing his daughter's ponies for the past year but when a proposed local authority site inspection was planned he removed them as, of course, they are not classed as agricultural use. In their place it seems he "borrowed" a couple of pigs to uphold the farming use.
The guy enjoys a scrap too having a crim record of affray and violent disorder.
So it seems indeed this is a chancer who has bought a bit of land with the sole intention of changing it's character and use for his own purposes.... which in time would probably extend well beyond the current planning application claims.
Far from the neighbours making his life hell it looks the other way round. Of course having been a print manager for the Daily Mail for 20yrs he would have no trouble getting an article printed that shows him in a good light.
Hope it's not Iffy.
Last edited by: Fenlander on Fri 25 Jan 13 at 13:54
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