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<blockquote data-quote="Jonny Nexus" data-source="post: 5078205" data-attributes="member: 14664">There's very recently (apologies if someone's already mentioned this) been a similar case in the UK, involving the issue of you can't &quot;hide&quot; something for x years and then come out of hiding.Basically, you can't just build a house in the UK, you need permission, and it's almost impossible to get permission to build a new house on rural land. But if you do built it anyway, and no-one complains for four years, it's automatically granted retrospective planning permission, so...And he lost. They ruled that the four years starts from the point that you finish the building work and unveil your house to the world, that the the wall of straw bales constitutes part of the building work, and so the clock doesn't start ticking until they come down. And they also had some words about not allowing people to profit from deliberate deceptions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jonny Nexus, post: 5078205, member: 14664"] There's very recently (apologies if someone's already mentioned this) been a similar case in the UK, involving the issue of you can't "hide" something for x years and then come out of hiding. Basically, you can't just build a house in the UK, you need permission, and it's almost impossible to get permission to build a new house on rural land. But if you do built it anyway, and no-one complains for four years, it's automatically granted retrospective planning permission, so... And he lost. They ruled that the four years starts from the point that you finish the building work and unveil your house to the world, that the the wall of straw bales constitutes part of the building work, and so the clock doesn't start ticking until they come down. And they also had some words about not allowing people to profit from deliberate deceptions. [/QUOTE]

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