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| Evicted hermit Stephen Grendon |
HERMIT Stephen Grendon has today been told he must leave his shack home.
After the Standard went to press today Cotswold District Councils' planning regulatory committee made the decision to evict him from the one-room hut he has lived in for the past 12 years.
Planning officers said the site failed to meet sufficient living standards and that the planning and environmental harm outweighed the human rights circumstances of Mr Grendon.
He has been given nine months to leave and says he will now have to apply for a council house.
If that is unsuccessful, he said he will be forced to live in his car on the Brimpsfield site.
The upset hermit told the Standard: "I'm distraught as to how it's going to change my life."
He has vowed to battle on, with one chance to appeal to the planning inspector.
Mr Grendon also intends to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
Mr Grendon, 43, bought the land and shack in 1994 and says he has lived in the building for the past 12 years, a claim disputed by CDC which says he lived in an old truck on the site for part of that time.
In April 2005 CDC decided the shack did not constitute a single dwelling house. An appeal against the decision by Mr Grendon was dismissed by CDC in January 2006.
12:27pm Wednesday 23rd April 2008
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CommentPosted by: son of rambow, ciren on 1:57pm Wed 23 Apr 08
leave the poor guy alone and concentrate on what really matters - like clearing the drug dealers off the chesterton estate
leave the poor guy alone and concentrate on what really matters - like clearing the drug dealers off the chesterton estate
Posted by: David, Cirencester on 2:07pm Wed 23 Apr 08
You can't even see this place from the road. He's living an environmental way of life what is the problem.
Now he'll be forced to park up in a caravan on the site instead.
Our fault really - we vote these idiots in.
You can't even see this place from the road. He's living an environmental way of life what is the problem.
Now he'll be forced to park up in a caravan on the site instead.
Our fault really - we vote these idiots in.
Posted by: Andrew, Cirencester on 2:32pm Wed 23 Apr 08
David, there's a distinct lack of competition in the political market around here. The conservatives have run this district for too long. It's disgraceful that this poor man is being forced out of his meagre home in which he lives a self-sufficient life.
David, there's a distinct lack of competition in the political market around here. The conservatives have run this district for too long. It's disgraceful that this poor man is being forced out of his meagre home in which he lives a self-sufficient life.
Posted by: Frank, ciren on 2:49pm Wed 23 Apr 08
I understand it to be his own land which makes it a bigger kick in the teeth
I understand it to be his own land which makes it a bigger kick in the teeth
Posted by: paul, long holiday on 7:19am Tue 6 May 08
Why is it that the Standard prints this mans name in story, but won't print the names of conmen bilking pensioners,then fleeing the country? Bad reporting or lack of guts?
Why is it that the Standard prints this mans name in story, but won't print the names of conmen bilking pensioners,then fleeing the country? Bad reporting or lack of guts?
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