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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS House disguised as barn ruled illegal  A property developer who disguised a house as a barn has lost his litigation and dispute resolution battle with planners. Alan Beesley, 38, built a £500,000 for his family on a plot of green belt land in Hertfordshire for which he only had permission to construct a barn for agricultural use. The property, North Brook Meadow, near Potters Bar, may have to be torn down after the Supreme Court overturned a Court of Appeal ruling. Mr Beesley and his family moved into the home in 2002 and four years later applied for a certificate of lawfulness, claiming the period for enforcement action had elapsed. Lord Brown, one of the seven Supreme Court justices who ruled unanimously against Mr Beesley, suggested the level of "dishonesty" involved in the case could constitute category of planning law "all of its own". He added: "Any law-abiding citizen would be not merely shocked by it but astonished to suppose that, once discovered, instead of being enforced against, it would be crowned with success." Posted by Georgina Prices 
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