When Mark Walker’s stepfather had a heart attack, it was clear he could no longer live alone. Walker therefore got planning permission to extend his home in Rickmansworth, south-west Hertfordshire, so that the 81-year-old cancer patient could be cared for by his family. However, he did not formally notify Three Rivers district council when construction started at the end of 2017. The omission may cost him his home. Because he failed to submit a one-page form, he incurred a penalty of £24,274 and was ordered to stop the work.
“We stretched ourself to the limit with this project and, over a year on, we have been unable to finish it,” he says.
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