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Burley Woodhead house owner told to remove decking
A businessman has been ordered to remove wooden decking from the front of his property - just months after being told to restore an unauthorised road leading to his home to its former state.
Kenneth Brook Chrispin was at the centre of controversy last year after calling in diggers to create a private drive through a field to improve access to his home at the top of Green Lane, Burley Woodhead.
The road - dubbed the Green Lane Bypass' - was built without planning permission, provoking a flurry of protests from some of his neighbours.
Planning officials investigating the matter last May, noticed during their inspection that Mr Brook Chrispin, who lives at Crag Top, Green Lane, was also erecting a platform of wooden decking on land outside his home.
Planning officer Martin Burke said: "The decking was raised up above the field like a viewing platform, which we felt was inappropriate for the green belt and was not something you would expect to see on the edge of Rombalds Moor.
"We served an enforcement notice to him to cease the use of the land as garden and remove the decking."
Mr Brook-Chrispin, who is the chairman and chief executive of Bradford-based snack firm Seabrook Crisps, appealed against the enforcement notice.
However his appeal failed and the enforcement notice has been upheld requiring Mr Brook-Chrispin to remove 75 square meters of decking within the next eight weeks.
Mr Burke said: "We originally gave him three weeks to remove the decking, but in light of the cost of the timber, he has now been ordered to take it down within eight weeks.
"This should give him the opportunity to carefully dismantle it and recycle the wood."
10:11am Sunday 23rd March 2008
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