A man has been ordered to demolish his “monster mansion” by council chiefs – after he built it without planning permission. Gurwinder Singh bulldozed his modest semi-detached house and replaced it with a four-bedroom property.
Walsall Council has issued Mr Singh with an enforcement notice ordering him to tear the building down following complaints from neighbours in Willenhall, West Mids. It is thought the brand new house would have cost in the region of £200,000 to build – and would have been the biggest property in the area.
Mr Singh had planning permission for a modest extension to the 1960s house but he went one step further and demolished the entire building. Last week councillors rejected a retrospective planning application for the new building and ordered Mr Singh to tear it down after they received 95 objections from residents.
