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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

'Red tape lunacy' to land London accountant with £16,000 bill to replace two windows in his ground floor flat

A London accountant has slammed the cost of replacing two windows in his ground floor flat which he has been told could land him with a bill of nearly £16,000.

Chris Howell, who lives in a block of flats in Westminster, is facing red tape, planning restrictions and building safety regulations which could send the cost spiralling to get new windows to replace a couple of wooden ones which are rotting.

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