A couple have been told they have to tear down a two-storey extension to their home, which includes their daughter's bedroom, after it was built without planning permission. The 'odd-looking' extension was put up by a builder who told the family that permission would not be needed, a council hearing heard this week.
Paul and Rachelle Horridge, from Rossendale in Lancashire, admitted they had been "foolish", but said they are now "terrified" for the future amid concerns that they may have to demolish the whole structure, Lancashire Live reports. Neighbours have made complaints about the rear extension, including one man who told planners that it was too tall and "out of character with other houses".
The family's Haslingden home now crosses the boundary into the next door's land because of the extension, Rossendale councillors heard. The extension is also too big, has different widths between its floors, and has an inappropriate flat roof and wooden cladding, it was claimed.
