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    1. CaptainKingsmill on

      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.

    2. InspectorDull5915 on

      Short version.

      Wealthy elderly couple tried to take the piss and got caught. They are now claiming that they could end up living in a caravan. However this is not true because they bought the land years ago for about
      £100,000 and now it’s worth a million.

    3. McFigroll on

      “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.

    4. DaveBeBad on

      What are the chances of their signatures being the first to object to any new development in their area…?

    5. ArchWaverley on

      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”

    6. GuzziHero on

      Maybe they wanted to invite lots of sailors to their lovely home so they could turn to the inspector and say “See, men!”

    7. 3headsonaspike on

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

    8. chaosandturmoil on

      complete with the obligatory ‘we are sad feel sorry for us’ picture.

    9. kirkyrise on

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

    10. Icy-Tear4613 on

      Supposed to collect semen, took the piss instead. Thoroughly deserved.

    11. Harmless_Drone on

      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.

    12. WalkingCloud on

      Well they tried playing the system and their bluff got called, don’t know where they expect this to go. 

      You tried it on, it didn’t work. 

    13. TorontoCanada66 on

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

    14. Glass_Effect5624 on

      I’m not sure on the thought process, that this article would make them look good in any way?

      Tear it down!

    15. GeneralGiggle on

      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.

    16. franki-pinks on

      So they got planning permission for a completely different building. Serves them right.

    17. ok_not_badform on

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

    18. AtomicBlastCandy on

      Morons….you have to be an elected official or a billionaire to get away with such brazen bullshit.

    19. cremilarn on

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

      No sympathy.

    20. IamGruitt on

      They are just a couple of wankers, and not the horse wanking type it seems.

    21. AbolishIncredible on

      >we didn’t know the full ramifications […] we did not get any advice from the planners along the way

      If only there was a way of knowing that you can’t build a £1m family home instead of an agricultural business… /s

    22. DM_me_goth_tiddies on

      For all the ‘this takes the (horse) piss’ jokes, I feel pretty bad for them. It’s their land. They had planning permission. Over Covid they realised their business isn’t viable. What do you do the property?

      The idea that you have to fucking tear it down is absolutely bonkers. The original planning permission included provision for a flat for people to stay in.

      If you think, ah well, they clearly intended for it always to be home. Here’s the evidence

      >’decidedly residential appearance’, including a kitchen with island breakfast bar, domestic furnishings and appliances, a dining area, living room and home office.

      Ah, glad the domestic furnishings prove they never intended to run a business. It seems pretty likely that covid did wreck their business. It certainly wrecked a lot of them. Not sure where the evidence is so strong that they never intend to use it for their business is.

      The planning permission included provision for
      > kitchenette, laboratory space, staff changing room and toilet on the ground floor, and two bedrooms with en suite bathrooms on the first floor.

      That already sounds a lot like a home lmao. Like it’s not that far off. They weren’t building a stables or anything.

      Either way, I hate the NIMBY culture of the UK. Make them pay a £20,000 fine to help bird habitats or rewilding or something. Tearing down a home because of planning permission is crazy to me. It helps no one. It does nothing.

    23. Cultural-Eggplant592 on

      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.

    24. smirnoff76 on

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

      I call absolute bollocks on that, they thought they’d chance it and get away with it

    25. EphemeraFury on

      “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.

    26. Muffinlessandangry on

      I agree with them that it makes no sense to tear it down, just a waste. It should be confiscated and sold instead. The council reimburses them for the cost of the land but not the building, the rest of the money goes to local schools, parks etc.

    27. Big_Half8302 on

      yeh, its all bullshit, so much money wasted, they should have just been honest when they sought planning permission.

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