Man Ordered to Rip Out 'Secret Flat' on £2.25m Cotswolds Estate After 10 Years

Man ordered to rip out 'secret flat' on £2.25m Cotswolds estate after 10 years

A man secretly lived in a flat hidden inside horse stables on his £2.25 million Cotswolds estate, near Jeremy Clarkson's farm, will have to rip it out.

Man living in flat he ‘secretly’ built inside horse stable ordered to demolish it

A man has been ordered to demolish a secret ‘granny flat’ inside horse stables on his £2.25m Cotswolds estate.

Businessman secretly living a stable for ten years must tear it down

Haulage boss James George, 54, has been told to strip out the cosy one-bed hideaway in a horseshoe-shaped stable block on land near affluent Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire.

Businessman ordered to demolish flat built inside horse stable in Cotswolds

James George, owner of a £2.25 million estate in the Cotswolds, has been ordered by West Oxfordshire District Council to fully dismantle a one-bedroom flat he built within his horse stables. The council rejected his application for a Certificate of Lawfulness, stating he did not establish continuous residential use over the required period.