The Wail at its finest

[Ignis Fatuus]

Don't you mean occupy it illegally for nowt.

Not much difference, farmland is only about 5-6k per acre, i.e. £400 for a house-sized plot. It is artificial scarcity of land that makes house prices so high. Travellers must think we are fools for putting up with that.

[norrahe]

But why would pikies/travellers pay half a million for a patch of land, when they could buy the same area of farmland for much less?

Don't you mean occupy it illegally for nowt.

[KentPhilip]

Pykies.

But why would pikies/travellers pay half a million for a patch of land, when they could buy the same area of farmland for much less?

[Doggy Styles]

Pykies.

[vetran]

council just need to leave it as a £0.5m mud pit.

then when new owners get fed up of applying for planning they can rattle the brown envelopes.


Then there will be 300 affordable homes on the site and a few councillors with yachts.

result

[doodab]

Apart from Kelly Brook, is there ANYTHING of interest in the Daily Fail?

Have you forgotten the lovely Imogen?

[DimPrawn]

Apart from Kelly Brook, is there ANYTHING of interest in the Daily Fail?

[Ignis Fatuus]

This is a new meaning of Property Rights that I hadn't come across. Even after you have sold your £500,000 house, you have a right to say what can be done with it.

[original PM]

struggling a bit with this one

so someone buys a house and then knocks it down

previous owners who did very well out of the deal are now whinging?

and this is news - the nosey old fu<kers need to crawl back down their hole

[gingerjedi]

Powerless neighbours likened the demolition to the helicopter attack in Apocalypse Now

'Ride of the Valkyries' playing through megaphones?

[mos]

'It was like something from Apocalypse Now': Family home knocked down after couple sold it when they were given an offer they couldn't refuse | Mail Online

Just in case you didn't know what Apocalypse Now refers to, there's a nice illustration.



So, how much is that mud patch worth then?



Reporting at it's "finest*".



*clearly a new definition of "finest" that we've never previously encountered.

its like the 'Father of the Bride' plot.

[Halo Jones]

“But on March 15 - just two weeks later - huge JCBs moved onto the site and demolished the house that had been there since the 1970s”

It is quite possible that they are not reporting the full story (shock horror) as after 40 odd years you would grandfather planning rights.

[d000hg]

I liked:

But on March 15 - just two weeks later - huge JCBs moved onto the site and demolished the house that had been there since the 1970s

Not regular JCBs, but HUGE ones.

Carpets, fridges and an oven left in good will by the Watts were also ripped out.

Oh no, not an OVEN!!

a scene they compared to the helicopter attack in cult film 'Apocalypse Now'.

How was it like a helicopter attack? Were they flying huge JCBs?

[TheFaQQer]

Anyone got a link that doesn't go to the Mail website?

It's blocked here.

[zeitghost]

'It was like something from Apocalypse Now': Family home knocked down after couple sold it when they were given an offer they couldn't refuse | Mail Online

Just in case you didn't know what Apocalypse Now refers to, there's a nice illustration.



So, how much is that mud patch worth then?



Reporting at it's "finest*".



*clearly a new definition of "finest" that we've never previously encountered.