Dominic Cummings cottage

[WeeGord]

Just read a very interesting link about the cottage he stayed in. Worth reading, IF the article is correct (and it seems there is a lot of evidence) then this could really cause waves.

https://universalcreditsuffer.com/2...-planning-permission-and-pays-no-council-tax/

 

[Chris_Boro]

Obviously its just a shed...

 

[hopesoboro]

Just read a very interesting link about the cottage he stayed in. Worth reading, IF the article is correct (and it seems there is a lot of evidence) then this could really cause waves.

https://universalcreditsuffer.com/2...-planning-permission-and-pays-no-council-tax/

Very diligent reporter - pity government haven't got someone of his ilk advising them!

 

[hopesoboro]

Very diligent reporter - pity government haven't got someone of his ilk advising them!

Alex Tiffin - solid.

 

[hopesoboro]

Obviously its just a shed...

Obviously!

 

[dooderooni]

Lloyd Grossman returns to BBC1 to present a special Dom Cum edition of "Through the loophole" as he explores a small isolation bunker in Durham.

 

[Jedi boro]

Ha ha you could tell the way he quickly down played it that he realised he’d given too much away oh it’s barely a house at all just a concrete structure etc...

 

[Chris_Boro]

It also now has a covered swimming pool, which I'm sure Mr Cummings as a reasonable person, never used.

Also where do the sister and sacrificial niece live?

 

[dooderooni]

I've got some Emmenthal in the fridge that has got smaller holes in it. Mind, they might be holes in the Gouda made during one of Johnson's emergency fridge excursions.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

Civil servants in the pockets of the elite, who would have thought it?

 

[FartingGnome]

I'm interested to hear them call it a farm. I know the area, and I see from the link in Wee Gord's OP that it's actually North Lodge Burn Hall. That makes sense, but not sure that it was a farm. It (Burn Hall) is a late Georgian pile that was a Mill Hill Fathers' seminary until 1971. The entrance to the Hall is at the bottom of the hill and the Lodge is to the North (surprise), going uphill towards what used to be the **** o' The North pub.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_Hall,_County_Durham

 

[r00fie1]

Maybe Dommo thought he was exempt from the law

but hadnt read the smallprint...

 

[jam69]

thats the farm that has received over a quarter of a million in EU subsidies

 

[dooderooni]

thats the farm that has received over a quarter of a million in EU subsidies

It does produce some spectacular bellends.

 

[coluka]

Well hopefully they can pull it down as it has no planning permissions, being in a conservation zone, after all, that seems to be what happens to everyday folk. I hope this proves costly. Furthermore, failing to register it for council tax must constitute some offence in itself too. It is incredible the lodge is only a band D valuation. Staggering what the rich and famous could get away with. This definitely isn’t going away though. I hope the council have the balls to throw the book at him.

 

[red_harrington]

This whole saga is a classic example of Tories and their ilk espousing the moral high ground yet falling short when the truth is told.

 

[hopesoboro]

This whole saga is a classic example of Tories and their ilk espousing the moral high ground yet falling short when the truth is told.

Where's Coops?

 

[r00fie1]

 

[Laughing]

Coops will be along in a bit to point out a missing apostrophe or two.

 

[kuepper]

There're all sorts of possibilities about the 'cottage' which looks like an agricultural building to me rather than a dwelling. Only the local council know or can ascertain the actual planning and council tax status, hopefully some journo will get on the case.