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"BingoLady" wrote:


"Christian McArdle" wrote in message
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Yes

I think what fred is saying is that you do need planning permission to
knock
down a building. Of course, that doesn't stop half the developers round
here
buying large Victorian houses on large plots and demolishing them in
favour
of flats with no suggestion of planning permission in advance. "Sorry guv,
my foot must have slipped off the clutch on my bulldozer. Here's twenty
thousand quid I just found in my pocket."

Christian.


Like the major owning brewery did with the historic Tommy Ducks pub in the
heart of Manchester city centre. In the middle of the night too.
They only received a small fine for doing it.
The land it was on (opposite Central Station and The Midland Hotel) is
worth a fortune
I still wonder why there was so little fuss made afterwards. It
stinks..........



The hotel where we had our wedding reception closed down, and permission
was sought to build houses/apartments on the site. Permission was
refused and then... mysteriously... some weeks later the place burned
down.

Hmmm...

M.

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