An NHS consultant could have to tear down the two-storey house that replaced a bungalow as he appeals to a planning inquiry to prevent its demolition, reports The Daily Mail.
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… the new building has deviated from the approved designs…
… enforcement is meant to be remedial…
The Daily Mail writes:
An NHS consultant was today facing D-Day in his fight to save his ‘monstrosity’ of a £1million house that neighbours say ‘sticks out like a sore thumb’.
Dr Manoj Srivastava, 48, could have to tear down the new build two-storey mansion – which he built on the site of a bungalow – because it is larger than the plans Milton Keynes Council approved …
The three-day planning inquiry, which opened on Tuesday, is being overseen by council barrister David Forsdick QC.
The Willen Residents’ Group is also represented at the three-day virtual hearing, where they are arguing that enforcement action is not tough enough – and have called for demolition.
But Mr Forsdick said the inquiry is not to discuss whether the council has gone far enough. The barrister said that the question is harm, and how it compares to the planning permission that Mr Srivastava had been initially given.
Dr Srivastava was originally given planning consent by Milton Keynes Council to demolish and then enlarge his single storey home in Portland Drive in 2017.
However it later emerged the new building has deviated from the approved designs.
It has a floor area 22sqm (4.9 per cent) bigger than permitted and a steeper roof which features a 46-degree pitch, rather than the approved 33-degree pitch.
Mr Forsdick said that the eventual building had more space in the roof than an average three-bed home.
It also emerged that builders had deviated from the approved front elevation…
But Mr Forsdick said at the opening of the planning inquiry on Tuesday that the council’s position is to make the situation acceptable, and demolition is ‘not justified.’ And Dr Srivistava’s barrister, Clare Parry QC, noted that enforcement is meant to be remedial, not to punish…
