Five £1m luxury mansions to be torn down as they re built one third bigger than planned
Stunning drone footage reveals the vast estate at the centre of a bitter five-year planning row which will end with the six-bed detached properties being demolished
Five £1m luxury mansions to be torn down after they re built bigger than planned (Image: SWNS)
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Five brand new £1million luxury mansions will be torn down because plots were 33 per cent too big after homeowners desperately battled to save them during bitter five year-long planning war
Six-bed detached properties in West Pennine moors are up to a third bigger than they were permitted to be
Bolton Council issued an enforcement notice for demolition in 2018, prompting a five-year planning row
Planning inspector has given householders 12 months to demolish structures and return site to previous state
OPENNESS: The part-built homes at Grundy Fold Farm PARTIALLY built million pound houses which have been ordered to be demolished harm the openness of green belt land , a planning inquiry has heard. The evidence was heard during a four-day inquiry considering appeals against Bolton Council’s decision to enforce demolition of the five incomplete houses and a garage at Grundy Fold farm, off Chorley Old Road. Planning permission was granted for the conversion of the former farmhouse and four new homes around a central courtyard in 2014. Bolton Council ordered the building to be knocked down in 2018 after multiple breaches of planning regulations were found.
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