A British man built a castle.<\/p>\n
Turned down for several building permits, he went ahead and built it anyway, hiding it behind a wall of hay bales.<\/p>\n
He was hoping to take advantage of a legal loophole. It looks like that argument may not fly<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s unfortunate. It looks like a pretty nice castle. I like the turret. I hope he triumphs over those who have the knickers in a twist — namely, the Reigate and Banstead Borough Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A British man built a castle. Turned down for several building permits, he went ahead and built it anyway, hiding it behind a wall of hay bales. He was hoping to take advantage of a legal loophole. It looks like that argument may not fly. It’s unfortunate. It looks like a pretty nice castle. IContinue reading “On an Illegal Castle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[527],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-castles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}