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Grundy Fold Farm FIVE partially-built mansions have been ordered to be torn down after a planning inspector dismissed appeals from the house owners. The luxury detached properties, at Grundy Fold Farm, off Chorley Old Road, for which Bolton Council issued an enforcement notice for demolition in 2018, were up to a third bigger and in different locations than allowed, a planning inquiry heard. The inspector has now given the householders an extended period of 12 months to demolish the structures and return the site to its previous form. That period has been extended from a six-months due to the ‘hardship’ the decision will impose on the appellants.
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Planning barristers are not exactly known for their pranks. The legislation they have to deal with on a day-to-day basis is fairly dry, so opportunities for humour are somewhat limited.
You can imagine the surprise, then, when a planning barrister at Kings Chambers managed to pull the wool over the eyes of LinkedIn’s planning community with his April Fool’s Day high jinks.
“I have just been reliably informed that from 1 September the Government are going to be removing absolutely all permitted development rights for good!” posted Killian Garvey.
“I cannot believe that All Permissive Rights I’ve Liked Fall Out Of Line Suddenly.”
Multi-million pound Bolton mansions could be demolished for being too big
The homes were built and sold before the council ordered them to be demolished
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Planning permission was granted in 2014 for the conversion of a former farmhouse (Image: Copyright Unknown)
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Owners of five £1m luxury mansions who face seeing their dream homes demolished after they were built too big and in the wrong place claim developers have disappeared
Elan Raja and Alison Thompson are two such owners who have been embroiled in a feud with Bolton Council
Planning inquiry heard how Sparkle Developments given planning permission to build homes in August 2014
Finishing works put on hold after complaint filed in October 2016 and council ordered them to be flattened
The appeal claims the enforcement notice issued by the council to demolish the homes was excessive
Homeowners claim that the developers have not contributed any costs or advice as of February 2020