A man who built a five-bedroom mansion without permission has been ordered to bulldoze it after losing a planning battle with the local council as it had a ‘negative impact’ on the area and was not in keeping with its ‘established character’, STV News reports.
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STV News writes:
Businessman Gareth Wilson built the property at the Tennox Farm estate near Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, in December 2021.
The standalone building features a roof of Spanish slate while the interior features a spiral staircase and a balcony…
But Wilson failed to submit a formal planning permission to North Ayrshire Council, which asked him to go through the process in March last year…
….later the local authority denied his retrospective application and he was told to pull down the site…
The local authority said: “It is considered that the development has a negative impact on visual amenity and is incongruous with the established character of the countryside area.”….
… government reporter Fortune Gumbo said: “I do not consider that there is a genuine housing need issue in play in this appeal as the appellant has other dwellings within the farm…”
