I’ve just this minute caught the tail end of a programme on BBC Two called Safe as Houses. It followed the fortunes of Annabel Claridge who wants to build a New England-style wooden house in the English countryside.
She spent a year designing the house, building a model and preparing her planning application, only to have her efforts judged by a bunch of stuffy, self-important, jumped-up, fascist busybodies who proclaimed on her design’s architectural merits as if anyone cares what they think. Who appointed these people masters of who gets to build what, and where? I certainly did not.
If someone owns a plot of land they should be able to build whatever they want on it, otherwise what is the point of anyone who doesn’t have friends in the right places owning land?
Annabel is going to appeal to the council in a year’s time. I wish her good luck, but I suspect she has little hope.
Did Annabel Claridge appeal? Anybody know what happened to her
plans. Who gives these people the right to tell others wha
t they can build on their own land. I live in Greece if you own
the land you build what you want as long as it has planning
permision. I hope she gets her dream!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just want to know whether it all worked out for Annabel Claridge eventually? I think she’s brilliant and want to wish her all the luck she deserves.