The farmer may have been deceitful during the process and the "castle" may not be the most attractive design but ordering demolition sounds extreme. If others were within close proximity and had to look at it, maybe, but it sounds isolated enough. Also, the neighbors haven't complained. Local planning officials everywhere seem to be a tricky bunch who rarely are even handed with rulings. This bunch sounds a bit too full of themselves, as they often do. Too much or proper justice?
A man's home is his castle — but not if British authorities say it has to be destroyed.
That's the situation faced by Robert Fidler, a farmer who lost a High Court bid Wednesday to protect the once-secret castle he built 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of London and kept hidden from planning authorities.
The adverse decision means Fidler's roof must come down. He has one year to comply unless an appeal is successful.
