Family told to demolish home after bungling builders built it 6ft too high

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A heartbroken family have been ordered to demolish their ?500,000 dream home after bungling builders made it 6ft too high and 4ft too wide.

Car sales manager Andy Murray, 51, paid ?164,000 for a building plot and a further ?300,000 constructing the four-bedroom property.

He left the project in the hands of his architects and builders but claims they failed to follow the plans.

After the home was built and fitted with a ?27,000 kitchen and four bathrooms costing ?25,000, the council stepped in and ordered it to be demolished.

Andy and his wife Frances, 53, will be charged a further ?11,500 for demolition, due to take place next week, and will have to sell his current home, valued at ?350,000, to cover the debts.

"It's a disaster for us. We'll be out on the street," said father-of-three Andy, of Strathaven, Lanarkshire. "I don't blame the council. They have exhausted every other avenue."



Planners at East Dunbartonshire Council in Scotland say the property is more than 6ft higher, 9ft longer and 4ft wider than the plans stated and also has too many windows and an unapproved 13ft balcony.

Thomas Glen, the council's head of development and enterprise said: "The house as constructed differs considerably from a previously-approved scheme, is not in line with local plan policy and guidance, and raises considerable amenity and potential precedent issues.

"Following the decision, the council's planning service will initiate formal enforcement action."

Andy claims builders Textura and the architects told him the home would meet council regulations and planning consent would be given retrospectively. But in the two years since the house was put up it still has neither planning permission nor a building warrant.
It also lacks an electricity supply, plumbing and a waste water system.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/family-told-to-demolish-home-after-bungling-builders-built-it-too-high-124920681.html

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Get the bulldozer over then talk later.
Some thing does not add up, my father was a builder and he use to tell me I have got to get to the site in the afternoon because the building Inspector are coming to inspect the work, so did the building inspectors never bothered to inspect till the job was finished or they just wanted to stitch them up, the whole job need building stage by stage, the tabloid forgot to tell us the truth.

[GastonJ]

Andy claims builders Textura and the architects told him the home would meet council regulations and planning consent would be given retrospectively.

IN that case he'll be able to sue them for the money. Let's face it he's built a house that he expects his neighbours to put up with even though it's a completely different design to the one he said he'd build and they'd see every day for the rest of their lives.

If people are stupid enough to spend money on building houses without permission they deserve the end result.

[nara]

The thing is a ****ing monstrosity anyway. It deserves to be demolished!

[Meat-Head]

Yeah when we modified mhm (fire pit for torching cars) building control came round, we also gained him as a customer

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This was a dream house does it matter if it was oval, round, 6.00ft sort or tall? A dream is a dream house.

[GastonJ]

One man's dream is another man's nightmare. I'd object if I live next door to that. It is too high and too long, looks out of place, and since I'd have been asked about it when permission was applied for (when the plans were for a smaller place) and I'd agreed to something that would fit in - then I'd probably e bulldozing the bassed myself. Cheel kers who do that and expect everyone to agree afterwards. Serves them right (disclaimer - I've been drinking this evening )