I generally can’t stand Council committees sticking their stuffy crusty old noses into the business of people and ruining their lives but, as beautiful as that log cabin is (despite the hideous clutter inside) the guy that built it is a bell end thinking he would get away with calling it a mobile home. The worst type of people are those that think they are clever but aren’t.
I'd love to see a council put this much time, money, effort , legal proceedings and police work into gettin people OFF the streets, rather than demolishing houses in the middle of nowhere
The log cabin looks a bit wrong. I think because he painted it all one plain color so it lost the log effect and looks almost like plastic imitation logs. Maybe using wood stain instead of paint, it'd bring out the natural beauty of the wood.
The pub demolition smells of a possible tip off. Luckily it backfired. In the south west we have redundant hotels which suddenly catch fire and have to be demolished. Then redeveloped as the developers wanted.
Exactly what happened on the seafront in Portsmouth. Listed building refused planning for a block of flats, sat for a few months and then burnt down. Now a block of flats.
I’ve one like that too…retired, thinks he is important, he reports me for absolutely everything. Thankfully I’ve done everything by the book and the council now won’t entertain him. He is a royal pain in the *rse!
The simple solution to pretty much every house that had been featured in the episodes I've seen is for people to actually get permission before building. I can't fathom how these people can risk this much, then be surprised when they get told that they have to tear it down... I see a theme of stubborn people that think they can disregard rules.
They think they won’t be noticed or they think the rules are stupid (some are stupid, but the vast majority make life safer and nicer for us). Sometimes they aren’t noticed, usually they are, the UK isn’t a large place and has quite a large population, so there’s not many areas you can really hide. Especially when you do a massive structure like the log cabin.
Meanwhile the big house building companies are throwing up ugly sh1t everywhere 😢 saying that I don’t have a lot of sympathy for folk who knew what they were doing… my heart breaks for the old Romany guy and his partner
"the whole point in planning is to protect the countryside, we don't have the space for houses everywhere" - what about protecting people from homelessness? You can't prevent the poor from having homes & protect the countryside at the same time. The solution is to give the poor affordable homes elsewhere, rather than making them homeless & prioritising your countryside.
These are two different issues that aren’t connected just by being about housing. The poor generally aren’t buying land and building on it legally or illegally, the Jonathon in Somerset isn’t the norm at all. I don’t disagree with building housing for the homeless, the situation around social housing house has become woefully bad since Thatcher. Most of the buildings in this series are people ignoring the rules because they think they’re above them and building whatever they want.
@rexcatston8412 EXACTLY 💯 % The Council's UK wide will be swiftly ripping up the countryside to build enormous estates per Starmers plans for our once peaceful & pleasant land.
If that is a mobile home, then I am the Queen of England! What a complete plank! Oh and I am a Canadian living in a rancher in BC, Canada and my son builds them for a living here in BC! 😂
The MATERIALS traveled as "mobiled". The log cabin was CONSTRUCTED after the fact. The owner is ridiculous and insulting to try to convince anyone that any of his home is reasonably comparable to an mobie home. Just tell all the delivery drivers that its the mobile home on ____ road - tell us how many drivers arrive at the correct door.
How many people buy land, assuming it was theirs to do with what they will? They buy at auctions, draw their houses, build them and along comes council with power and will to knock it all down?
That guy who keeps doing it is outrageous. He got permission for a 3 bed bungalow and built a 5 bed house. They let him get away with it so of course he thinks he can do what he wants. He then builds a garage without permission, asks permission after building it and they let him get away with it again. He then changes it to a flat and presents it to them again as a fait accompli. Before he even hears about that he builds another illegal garage. They just keep allowing him to do what he wants and that’s just really annoying. He says they’re trying to wear him down but he’s the one who keeps breaking the law over and over again
They got planning approval for one thing they tried to go around what they agreed to. What did you think was going to happen? Ya think the council will say - “ Oh well it’s already built - naughty naughty “
Because if they weren't someone *would* build a housing estate. Case in point the demolished pub that they wanted to rebuild with a 10 floor tower block on top.
The difference being, big estates are mostly built by development corporations. Greenbelt or not they pressure the councils through the court system by spending big money in court. The councils often can't put up the legal costs over time and have to give up. The people on this show are just every day people trying to live their dream. If they aren't harming anyone, own the land and plan to live in it, why shouldn't they. Regulations are getting out of hand.
You think this is bad, my secondary school was a grade 2 listed building. It closed as a school about 15 years ago and then one Sunday afternoon about 10 years ago, bulldozers turned up and knocked it to the ground. They built a primary school on the old school playing field and fenced it off but the site of the building hasn’t changed since the day they knocked it down. It’s a derelict site full of rubble and overgrown with weeds. It wouldn’t be as bad if it was on a back street but this is on the main road into town. It used to be a beautiful grand Georgian building and was all still in original condition (trust me, I still remember freezing my arse off every winter) so anyone that cares about this stuff plz look into what happened to Henry mellish school in bulwell Nottingham. My council are criminals anyway so you won’t get anywhere with them but maybe there’s someone else that can deal with a council that demolishes listed buildings for cash which they then use to invest in crackpot companies (against constant advice) which ultimately bankrupts said council. We don’t even get our bins emptied or our cemeteries maintained these days
That monstrosity built on old car tyres and bales of hay with the tarps all over it just needed a gallon of petrol to fox the job, what an absolute eyesore and fire risk. His son Callum is a one in a million kid these days and his old man must be so proud of him though!
8% of land is developed in the uk. Hardly crowded. Such a shame for Jonathon and his family. Wanting to be self reliant is not allowed. As for Gordon - what a sad man. I was wondering if the 4 year (now 10 year) rule applies to the log cabin?
Ok, but 70% is agriculture. If we fill up the 30% left we’ll have no land left natural to enjoy and, even though rights of way are a thing in the UK, try walking across farmland where ever you want and you’ll find yourself with a farmer with a red face screaming at you to get off. I grew up surrounded by farmland, so I’ve seen it a lot.
I have to agree with the councils on some sort but they do take the pss when they don’t look after the areas there self they could be doing for the the country sides instead of harassing home owners
Humans aren’t an endangered species. It’s not that they have more rights, but sometimes they’re protected in areas that make it difficult for humans to get their act together.
Gordon really needs to keep his nose in his own home and not anyone else's. Brian on the other hand needs to follow the rules!!! What does he think is going to happen???!!!
How does Brian, who knowingly did the wrong thing multiple times, get to keep his buildings when all those who didn’t know better were treated inhumanely like the retired couple from last episode or Jonathan & the bats. Why can’t councils work with people instead of against them.
Because belligerent people like Brian break the rules over and over, so they get caught up dealing with that kind of thing. Some people like Jonathon, who doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing, fall through the cracks because he doesn’t know how to talk to them. He needs representation, but he can’t afford it. He’s in a downward cycle unfortunately. I grew up in that area, plenty of people like Jonathon fall through the cracks in education too.
The counsel is being silly about the straw house. The owner is clearly not occupying the structure and clearly it (being made out of straw) will fall down on its own. I hope he rebuilds a new eco home - though one not made out of straw. The other two gentlemen featured are not sympathetic at all.
The bats were occupying it though and they have protected status in the UK because humans have removed the majority of their habitat. At the end you see that the house was damaged further and the bats had left, so he was able to demolish.
I think old man ex-banker, is just jealous of his neighbour's log house and happy family, as he is the typical boring ex-Banker, with only a dog for company and a rubbish house. Plus he's really old now. His life's purpose was to be a butt-hurt neighbour, busy-body, bored, sad person
I thought he lived next to Brian, the one with the awful bungalow? The log cabin is a massive structure on a piece of land only permitted for 2 mobile homes, that’s why he got caught out.
I get that one must follow rules, but I don't understand why, if a structure is safe and looks nice, someone should be forced to pull it down over some red tape. Allow them to file a different permit and approve it, simple. The log cabin, for example, surely doesn't do anything except raise property values. (The straw house is another story...).
It’s on land that wasn’t supposed to be built on, he only had permission for 2 mobile homes. Hertfordshire, where the log cabin is, has very strict rules about the look of new homes built. I have my own feelings about that, but I don’t live in the area (or even the UK anymore), so I’m not arguing it. Basically, the house looks “wrong” so he would probably never get permission without changing it significantly. So no, it being nice doesn’t raise the value significantly and people moving there are usual looking for a specific type of building. It’d probably be harder to sell. Oh, and there’s the added complication that the UK is really weird about wooden buildings. My parents live in a fairly rare wooden frame house and they can’t sell it because people can’t get a mortgage on it. Banks and insurance companies are convinced they’re a fire hazard, apparently.
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@@markdraycott3974the truth is, he isn’t very bright. It doesn’t mean he has less worth than anyone else. I grew up around there and knew a lot of people like him.
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The log cabin is clearly not a mobile home.....
Yeah - his argument is like saying that about any home because the bricks were shipped from somewhere.
They roll and float
@@goverment457not when they’re nailed and screwed to a foundation.
What a great lad Callum is standing by his dad, I bet his dad is really proud of him.
Living in a log cabin myself- that log home is a work of art- beautiful!
I generally can’t stand Council committees sticking their stuffy crusty old noses into the business of people and ruining their lives but, as beautiful as that log cabin is (despite the hideous clutter inside) the guy that built it is a bell end thinking he would get away with calling it a mobile home. The worst type of people are those that think they are clever but aren’t.
😂agree ‘mobile home my arse’ He was tying to bend the rules and got bent over quite rightly by the laws. 😂
"It's not much different from a mobile home" ... in that case it should be easy to move 😂
The log cabin is gorgeous but way, way too cluttered!
Keep your opinion to yourself
He should have got planning permission for log cabin. He went to Canada's . Fill in Application
I'd much rather that than live somewhere completely bare and depressing
@@BEAN.MACHINE I prefer to live in a house that’s not full of clutter and crap personally.
nope not gorgeous but every one has different taste . I tent to Japandi as an aesthetic… the point is he didn’t have permission to build it.
"We didn't know we needed to tell the council about our straw bale house" 😂
So the guy has 200k in legal fees and he’s still battling, how can anybody afford that? Madness
It’s not sad it’s bloody madness
I'd love to see a council put this much time, money, effort , legal proceedings and police work into gettin people OFF the streets, rather than demolishing houses in the middle of nowhere
Smart young man sticking it out with he's loving father! I feel in my heart that is why his father hasn't given up on life. Keep on keeping on! ❤
The log cabin looks a bit wrong. I think because he painted it all one plain color so it lost the log effect and looks almost like plastic imitation logs. Maybe using wood stain instead of paint, it'd bring out the natural beauty of the wood.
The pub demolition smells of a possible tip off. Luckily it backfired. In the south west we have redundant hotels which suddenly catch fire and have to be demolished. Then redeveloped as the developers wanted.
Exactly what happened on the seafront in Portsmouth. Listed building refused planning for a block of flats, sat for a few months and then burnt down. Now a block of flats.
What a bloody busy body that neighbour is, got nowt better to do.
I've got a neighbour just like it, he's a snob and he's been retired for over 30 years.
I’ve one like that too…retired, thinks he is important, he reports me for absolutely everything. Thankfully I’ve done everything by the book and the council now won’t entertain him. He is a royal pain in the *rse!
@kareninkster1831 exactly the same, they've got nothing better to do.
Looks like a log cabin from the outside and a charity shop from the inside
4:25 How many colanders do you need?
It’s a mobile home it came from Canada 😂
The simple solution to pretty much every house that had been featured in the episodes I've seen is for people to actually get permission before building. I can't fathom how these people can risk this much, then be surprised when they get told that they have to tear it down... I see a theme of stubborn people that think they can disregard rules.
They think they won’t be noticed or they think the rules are stupid (some are stupid, but the vast majority make life safer and nicer for us). Sometimes they aren’t noticed, usually they are, the UK isn’t a large place and has quite a large population, so there’s not many areas you can really hide. Especially when you do a massive structure like the log cabin.
They obviously didn't know the story of the three little pigs.
Meanwhile the big house building companies are throwing up ugly sh1t everywhere 😢 saying that I don’t have a lot of sympathy for folk who knew what they were doing… my heart breaks for the old Romany guy and his partner
… and the guy who built the straw home full of bats 😢
The traditional Hertfordshire barn is on Mardleybury Farm , Woolmer Green, my old workshop 🤣
Is it from Canada? 😂
What a fool, ‘I understand planning rules have got to followed but …’, his poor wife.
"the whole point in planning is to protect the countryside, we don't have the space for houses everywhere" - what about protecting people from homelessness? You can't prevent the poor from having homes & protect the countryside at the same time. The solution is to give the poor affordable homes elsewhere, rather than making them homeless & prioritising your countryside.
These are two different issues that aren’t connected just by being about housing. The poor generally aren’t buying land and building on it legally or illegally, the Jonathon in Somerset isn’t the norm at all. I don’t disagree with building housing for the homeless, the situation around social housing house has become woefully bad since Thatcher. Most of the buildings in this series are people ignoring the rules because they think they’re above them and building whatever they want.
Your not doing any harm, other than setting a precedent which would result in the whole green belt disappearing
greenbelt IS disappearing. The whole thing is being paved over with council housing and council approved housing developments.
@rexcatston8412 EXACTLY 💯 % The Council's UK wide will be swiftly ripping up the countryside to build enormous estates per Starmers plans for our once peaceful & pleasant land.
@@rexcatston8412 True but this isn’t a reason to say do whatever you like, next thing we’ll be paying for peoples board and feeding them. 😉
They are 'Batty' in Bath...😂😂😂
The log cabin story.
Ignorance is bliss...
A log cabin is in no way a moblie home and he knew it! He just thought he had found a loop hole.
If that is a mobile home, then I am the Queen of England! What a complete plank! Oh and I am a Canadian living in a rancher in BC, Canada and my son builds them for a living here in BC! 😂
The MATERIALS traveled as "mobiled". The log cabin was CONSTRUCTED after the fact.
The owner is ridiculous and insulting to try to convince anyone that any of his home is reasonably comparable to an mobie home.
Just tell all the delivery drivers that its the mobile home on ____ road - tell us how many drivers arrive at the correct door.
Should have put wheels on it. 😂 I'm a gypsy and we get exemptions for some mobile homes, but it needs to be within a certain size.
How many people buy land, assuming it was theirs to do with what they will? They buy at auctions, draw their houses, build them and along comes council with power and will to knock it all down?
That guy who keeps doing it is outrageous. He got permission for a 3 bed bungalow and built a 5 bed house. They let him get away with it so of course he thinks he can do what he wants. He then builds a garage without permission, asks permission after building it and they let him get away with it again. He then changes it to a flat and presents it to them again as a fait accompli. Before he even hears about that he builds another illegal garage. They just keep allowing him to do what he wants and that’s just really annoying. He says they’re trying to wear him down but he’s the one who keeps breaking the law over and over again
He’s the kind of guy that forces the rules to be so harsh.
The demolition of the Carlton Hotel is exactly the same as what was sneekly done to the beautiful Capitol Theatre in Tamworth, Nsw Australia.
Its a beautiful giant stack of toothpicks .... Americans would love it
I've seen something similar in Russia
They got planning approval for one thing they tried to go around what they agreed to. What did you think was going to happen? Ya think the council will say - “ Oh well it’s already built - naughty naughty “
How incredibly dim not to get planning permission. What did these people expect?
Getting planning permission in advance would beso much cheaper and less stressful than all this!
"mobile" home, the clues in the name.
Its not like they're building a housing estate and its their own land. I don't understand why the laws are so rigid
Because if they weren't someone *would* build a housing estate. Case in point the demolished pub that they wanted to rebuild with a 10 floor tower block on top.
The difference being, big estates are mostly built by development corporations. Greenbelt or not they pressure the councils through the court system by spending big money in court. The councils often can't put up the legal costs over time and have to give up.
The people on this show are just every day people trying to live their dream. If they aren't harming anyone, own the land and plan to live in it, why shouldn't they.
Regulations are getting out of hand.
The arrogance of the ‘log cabin’ hone
You think this is bad, my secondary school was a grade 2 listed building. It closed as a school about 15 years ago and then one Sunday afternoon about 10 years ago, bulldozers turned up and knocked it to the ground. They built a primary school on the old school playing field and fenced it off but the site of the building hasn’t changed since the day they knocked it down. It’s a derelict site full of rubble and overgrown with weeds. It wouldn’t be as bad if it was on a back street but this is on the main road into town. It used to be a beautiful grand Georgian building and was all still in original condition (trust me, I still remember freezing my arse off every winter) so anyone that cares about this stuff plz look into what happened to Henry mellish school in bulwell Nottingham. My council are criminals anyway so you won’t get anywhere with them but maybe there’s someone else that can deal with a council that demolishes listed buildings for cash which they then use to invest in crackpot companies (against constant advice) which ultimately bankrupts said council. We don’t even get our bins emptied or our cemeteries maintained these days
But a cheap plot of land because you can't build on it, then build on it anyway. And you want us to feel for these people?
That monstrosity built on old car tyres and bales of hay with the tarps all over it just needed a gallon of petrol to fox the job, what an absolute eyesore and fire risk. His son Callum is a one in a million kid these days and his old man must be so proud of him though!
8% of land is developed in the uk. Hardly crowded. Such a shame for Jonathon and his family. Wanting to be self reliant is not allowed. As for Gordon - what a sad man. I was wondering if the 4 year (now 10 year) rule applies to the log cabin?
Ok, but 70% is agriculture. If we fill up the 30% left we’ll have no land left natural to enjoy and, even though rights of way are a thing in the UK, try walking across farmland where ever you want and you’ll find yourself with a farmer with a red face screaming at you to get off. I grew up surrounded by farmland, so I’ve seen it a lot.
Btw, what do you think the 10 year rule is?
I have to agree with the councils on some sort but they do take the pss when they don’t look after the areas there self they could be doing for the the country sides instead of harassing home owners
The owners of the historic pub the crooked house in the midlands did the same thing they should make them rebuilt that too.
I think it’s absolutely insane that bats have more rights to a home than humans. INSANE
Humans aren’t an endangered species. It’s not that they have more rights, but sometimes they’re protected in areas that make it difficult for humans to get their act together.
Straw cabin…11:35…😂😂😂😂 is that a BBQ 😂😂😂
How would someone know if there are bats living in this house and why tell them if there are. Just demolished it already.
Probably when someone came to inspect it they saw the bats.
Green belt building is fine if you have enough money to pay off the relevant people
Get a life neighbour Gordon!
These people are destroying lives! Gordon Wilkinson needs to get a life!
Gordon really needs to keep his nose in his own home and not anyone else's. Brian on the other hand needs to follow the rules!!! What does he think is going to happen???!!!
both toxic egos and the look on Brian’s long suffering partner says it all!
How does Brian, who knowingly did the wrong thing multiple times, get to keep his buildings when all those who didn’t know better were treated inhumanely like the retired couple from last episode or Jonathan & the bats. Why can’t councils work with people instead of against them.
Because belligerent people like Brian break the rules over and over, so they get caught up dealing with that kind of thing. Some people like Jonathon, who doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing, fall through the cracks because he doesn’t know how to talk to them. He needs representation, but he can’t afford it. He’s in a downward cycle unfortunately. I grew up in that area, plenty of people like Jonathon fall through the cracks in education too.
The counsel is being silly about the straw house. The owner is clearly not occupying the structure and clearly it (being made out of straw) will fall down on its own. I hope he rebuilds a new eco home - though one not made out of straw. The other two gentlemen featured are not sympathetic at all.
The bats were occupying it though and they have protected status in the UK because humans have removed the majority of their habitat. At the end you see that the house was damaged further and the bats had left, so he was able to demolish.
Sad for the house of straw man his MP is the most usless man on the planet. Bat law is not EU he just spouts rubbish that fits his own agenda.
Remove taste add a lot of stupidity, arrogance and money (optional). Result you have a TV programme about people having their houses demolished.
Prefab houses are not mobile homes. Otherwise, every new development is mobile in some sort of way
This is torture having to watch gambling ads So insensitive to people who have lost love ones due to this
Talk to TH-cam about banning them then. It’s not the channel fault what ads you get.
@@jaybee4118 I can't talk to TH-cam Do you have a number because I certainly don't
Stkilda Victoria they ,developers burnt a pier Cafe council madde the build it of previous plans
Not worth the headache
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I think old man ex-banker, is just jealous of his neighbour's log house and happy family, as he is the typical boring ex-Banker, with only a dog for company and a rubbish house. Plus he's really old now. His life's purpose was to be a butt-hurt neighbour, busy-body, bored, sad person
I thought he lived next to Brian, the one with the awful bungalow? The log cabin is a massive structure on a piece of land only permitted for 2 mobile homes, that’s why he got caught out.
I get that one must follow rules, but I don't understand why, if a structure is safe and looks nice, someone should be forced to pull it down over some red tape. Allow them to file a different permit and approve it, simple. The log cabin, for example, surely doesn't do anything except raise property values. (The straw house is another story...).
It’s on land that wasn’t supposed to be built on, he only had permission for 2 mobile homes. Hertfordshire, where the log cabin is, has very strict rules about the look of new homes built. I have my own feelings about that, but I don’t live in the area (or even the UK anymore), so I’m not arguing it. Basically, the house looks “wrong” so he would probably never get permission without changing it significantly. So no, it being nice doesn’t raise the value significantly and people moving there are usual looking for a specific type of building. It’d probably be harder to sell.
Oh, and there’s the added complication that the UK is really weird about wooden buildings. My parents live in a fairly rare wooden frame house and they can’t sell it because people can’t get a mortgage on it. Banks and insurance companies are convinced they’re a fire hazard, apparently.
What the world needs
Is more Government 👿to tell the citizens 😣👨👩👦👦👨👩👦👦 what they can an cant do...😮
I think 🙆♀️ thats called.a Dictator ship 🤷♀️
Log cabin is beautiful councils pi.. me off
Just home some dingy dodgers, you’ll be fine. 2024. 👍
As I am watching this Damned Designs program I am ashamed to be British/English.
The council are joke
2024, just register your gaff as a mosque. 😂
Mogg is a habitual liar.
Yep. He also doesn’t give a crap about Jonathon or anyone like him.
Seems like this dude wasn't very bright.
Keep your opinion to yourself.
@@markdraycott3974the truth is, he isn’t very bright. It doesn’t mean he has less worth than anyone else. I grew up around there and knew a lot of people like him.
Lol Sucked in CLTX money grubbing jews. gotta spend a pretty penny to rebuild the pub.
One month since it was written and this anti-Semitic comment is still here? Wow.
Yh any property in London and the the government say no don’t bother no point
MOBILE HOME HAHAHAHAAA