Couple outwit planners

A PROPERTY developer yesterday won his battle to outwit planners by building a £500,000 (€570,000) home disguised as a barn on protected Green Belt land.

Couple outwit planners

Alan Beesley and his wife, Sarah, had faced eviction from their two-storey house but yesterday the Court of Appeal restored a ruling that the couple had acted within the law.

Beesley was granted permission to build a barn for agricultural use only but fitted it out as a house with three bedrooms, a study, bathroom, lounge, reception area, storeroom and gym.

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