{"id":2019,"date":"2008-01-25T07:03:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T12:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2008-01-25T07:03:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T12:03:48","slug":"you-ask-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2019","title":{"rendered":"You Ask Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ask &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080125\/od_uk_nm\/oukoe_uk_britain_castle\">Why Not?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A farmer built an entire mock castle behind a screen of hay bales&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Of course, the long, stultifying arm of the law is there to screw things up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;and lived there concealed for four years to evade planning regulations, officials said on Friday &#8212; but it may be torn down anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Fidler hopes to take advantage of a provision of planning law that allows buildings without planning permission to be declared legal if no objections have been made after four years<\/p>\n<p>But <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1201265491_0\" style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed\">Reigate and Banstead Borough Council<\/span> in Surrey is not impressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does not count because the property was hidden behind hay bales,&#8221; said a spokeswoman. &#8220;No one knew it was there.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;d think they had bigger things to worry about over there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ask &#8220;Why Not?&#8221; A farmer built an entire mock castle behind a screen of hay bales&#8230; \u00a0Of course, the long, stultifying arm of the law is there to screw things up: &#8230;and lived there concealed for four years to evade planning regulations, officials said on Friday &#8212; but it may be torn down anyway. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}