Couple who illegally built £1,000,000 home ordered to tear it down

The planning application was for a semen collection facility, but they decided to flout the law and build a 3 bedroom house and were surprised when they were asked to take it down.

I’m missing the part where I’m supposed to feel sorry for them really, even if they have spaffed their savings up the wall.

“Jeremy and Elaine Zielinski had been given planning permission to build a two-storey stallion semen collection centre and laboratory, with a small flat on the first floor for staff.”

I suppose they thought choosing such a ridiculous cover, nobody would question them.

This article is really worth a read, there’s so many quotable sections

>‘We would not have gone on and built this and put all our money into it unless we thought it was totally legal to do it.’

‘If we could have a semen clinic on the site it would be worth at least £1million’

>In 2014, they were given planning permission by South Cambridgeshire district council for a countryside business with a reception area, office, kitchenette, laboratory space, staff changing room and toilet on the ground floor, and two bedrooms with en suite bathrooms on the first floor.

>But planning inspector Chris Preston found the property had a ‘decidedly residential appearance’, including a kitchen with island breakfast bar, domestic furnishings and appliances, a dining area, living room and home office.

The Zielinskis appealed the order, arguing it was excessive and the property could just revert to the permitted use instead.

“Where’s the horse jizz?”

“In the mini fridge, next to the milk”

They claimed they wanted to take the spunk but really wanted to extract the Michael.

They said they would be collecting semen from horses. Instead they just took the piss

Rural planning is like this or else you’d have every london banker and their mistress buying a barn and trying to build a 17 room mcmansion on the plot.

Every once in a while a story comes along that just makes you laugh out loud….

Didn’t know you were breaking the law? Absolute horse cum.

You got permission to build something and completely ignored the plans and built a house, but kept the outside looking the same.

Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.

Rich boomers being utter twats. I hope they live stream it being demolished

Boomers why don’t follow rules and then try to be the victim.

No sympathy.

Look all they had to do was each time the planning inspector came round just have a horse jizzing on the kitchen peninsula and bobs your uncle it’s all fine.

Or just get one of [these ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0lwtV-R9kZw)as a dining table centerpiece.

I have a feeling these people that they’ll get retrospective permission because “what are they gonna do lol, make us knock it down?”

Yes, shit for brains, that’s what they’ll do.

Housing developer here got permission for six houses in a particular layout. They chose to build six much larger houses in a different layout. And after “legal wrangling”? Had to bulldoze the lot.

“Jeremy added: ‘If we have broken the rules, we didn’t know the full ramifications.

‘We did not get any advice from the planners along the way. The first we knew something was wrong was in 2020.

‘There was not much communication. Don’t throw us out on the street.’”

So is he saying here that they went to the council and asked if they could convert it to a house and the council said “dunno, do what you want”.

The whole story is inconsistent. They got planning permission for the clinic in 2014 but lockdown ruined their business plans and they must have immediately changed it into a house because they started worrying about the council and planning in 2020.

And yet they sold their old house in 2019 (apparently with nowhere to go) to live in a static on site so they were forced to make it a house even though they were running the business from the site.

When will some people realise that ignorance is no defence in law. Not that I think that they are innocent.

Retired couple says they’re ‘starting a business’. Made no sense from the outset. Suspect they wanted to have a house there but knew a regular application would be rejected. I’m inclined to wonder if they took legal advice from someone who told them to go that route. I’d be looking to sue them if possible.

> If we are chucked out, we will be having to rely on the state.

> lives on 17acres of land.

Fuck off, sell your land and fund your lifestyle mistakes. why should the state have to fund anything

OK, I get that there are rules but it’s a nice looking house not out of keeping with the rural surrounds so whats the harm, other than spiteful people flexing their muscles?