Paul,
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By the way, the initial house plans have fallen through. The local council planning department has now informed the owner that they are most unlikely to grant planning consent to build a house on the land, even though they had previously indicated that there would be no objections
What a big nuisance that is!
I'd take the original consent to the Courts.
I'd argue this one!!. [Linked Image]
A Council cannot just change it's mind like that.
Considering that the guy already owns the land, what authority, does the council have to tell the guy what he can do with his own land?.
Yet Councils are really good at rating land at exorbitant rates.
You have to listen to them and yet they still take your hard-earned money.
My personal opinion is that we haven't moved on from the 1700's as far as the Land-lords and Kings go.
Just in another name. [Linked Image]

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[This message has been edited by Trumpy (edited 02-22-2005).]