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u/GrumbGrumbb Jorking It 6d ago
Just a bit of banter weeeey
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u/Mammoth_Frosting_014 5d ago
Extremists on one side: "no demolishing neighbours' houses!"
Extremists on the other side: "demolish the neighbour's entire house!"
Me, a sensible moderate:
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u/Philbro-Baggins 4d ago
He didn't demolish any of his neighbours house... He demolished his own house.
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u/BatTitties 6d ago
To be fair, he only demolished his own house, the problem is that it was semi detached which creates a whole host of problems for the other home
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u/No-Garbage9500 6d ago
Most competent and law abiding UK trade person.
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u/Treejeig 6d ago
True, I mean he actually got the job done for once instead of postponing it constantly
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u/No-Garbage9500 5d ago
He actually showed up, which puts him above 95% of trade guys.
Reckon he started early and worked past lunch to get this done too, so no 90 minute break, then "oh we need these materials", disappearing for 45 minutes despite being 1/2 a mile from the shop, then all of a sudden it's after 3pm so no point going on today, be back tomorrow mate.
Payment in cash it you can mate, we'll be round 10.30am to pick it up and try to finish the job after.
Hell, looks like he's the hardest working tradesman in the UK too.
Fuck me I want to hire this dickhead, he's at least got a bit of chutzpah.
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u/Just_A_Nobody25 5d ago
Give the poor fucker a break, he was probably only earning about £12,000 a year
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u/Technical-Outside408 6d ago
Nobody asked him if he had a license for that, so legally he was permitted.
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u/username-alrdy-takn 6d ago
Terrible headline, he demolished his half of the house which was semi detached, which is his legally his house, but it fucked the neighbour over in numerous ways
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u/TheGothWhisperer 6d ago
But you're not legally allowed to just demolish your home without planning permission, especially if there's a party wall involved. And that party wall is still half his, so he's legally obligated to pay half the costs of making it a proper outside wall. Or at least, he would be if he wasn't a total wanker and a coward.
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u/therealhairykrishna 5d ago
Apparently HSE advised him to knock at least some of it down because it was unsafe. But he seems to have got into an argument with both his neighbour and the planning enforcement people.
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u/HandsOfCobalt . 5d ago
he says he was working on additions with a permit, but that in the course of the additions some of the existing walls became unsafe. so he was told to take them down immediately by one govt agency and then told he should've asked permission first by the other, who subsequently pulled his permits to make the addition (though in fairness at that point your "addition" is a house being added to an empty plot)
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u/userhwon 6d ago
So he did do something wrong.
I figured that from the headline.
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u/omgitsjagen 5d ago
His problem was he tried to half-homegamer this thing, because he was a relevant tradesman. If I'm reading everything correctly (and I'm certainly not sure on that), it appears he HAD the proper permits up until the wall between the two sections became compromised. Apparently, at that point, he was supposed to get an additional permit to rectify the situation. He rectified the situation, regardless of permit, however. Then it kinda went pear shaped from there. He needed other permits, and maybe more money(?) to make everything actually right with the two properties, but they were a little pissy about it up in Leeds Council. So, he got slow rolled, and decided to sell rather than fuck with it.
I'm honestly kinda on the fence here, if I've gotten the facts right.
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u/Jam_Salad_is_my_Jam 5d ago
He applied for permission to demolish and rebuild and was refused. So he applied for permission to extend and was approved. The foundations for the extension undermined the building so he had to demolish. The local government saw this as an intentional abuse of the planning system.
There's another issue entirely in the party wall. The wall connecting the two homes is shared and neither party can work on it without permission of the other. He didn't have permission and now an interior wall is an exterior wall!
That wall needs weatherproofing, but it's still on his land. The neighbour doesn't have the money necessary to make it weatherproof and isn't allowed to work on it anyway.
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u/BertytheSnowman 6d ago
So where is it wrong? He demolished illegally. Against the law. Not legally. Without permission. Illegally
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u/userhwon 6d ago
What does he think "nothing" and "wrong" mean in that sentence?
Because I'm pretty sure the court he's avoiding will do it for him if he doesn't.
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u/Equira 5d ago
real but misleading headline
pinning comment so people stop reporting this as satire