Cheeky farmer Robert Fidler has been ordered to tear down his extravagant self-built castle in Surrey. Harsh, you may think, but not when you realise that he hid the mock-Tudor monstrosity behind 40ft hay bales for four years in an attempt to cheat the local planning department.
You see, the rules state that if no one objects to a new building after four years, you can apply for a 'certificate of lawfulness'. But obviously this is only the case if people actually know the building exists...oops!
Another nice (but rather sad) pun from Snowmail:
FIDLER WITHOUT A ROOF
My pun:
PLANNING PER-MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
7 comments:
People in grass houses shouldn't lay stones
The last straw (Will, again)
Bale OUT (Adelleywelley)
The straw that broke camelot's back
Fidle Grass-Blow
*groan* (not that groaning's a bad thing, of course...!)
You can't Fidle the system
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