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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Tear it down!

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

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

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

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

    No sympathy.

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

21. 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.

22. >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

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

27. This is so, so satisfying. Great to see entitled boomers getting what they deserve.

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

29. I’m just delighted to discover a real life story where a couple could potentially save the day and keep their dream home by wanking-off horses in their back garden. The film rights practically sell themselves.

30. Council: Is that a two-storey stallion semen collection centre and laboratory, with a small flat on the first floor for staff…or are you just happy to see me?

    Couple: Oh it’s actually a house.

    Council: wot

31. 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.

32. No sympathy for anyone who can’t be arsed to follow what they have planning permission for.

    If you want something different then you are supposed to submit a planning permission revision.

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