A LAINDON man has been fined a total of £10,000 with £4,000 costs for refusing to stop work on his home extension for which he had no planning permission.
Basildon magistrates imposed the fines on Douglas Dunn, 50, yesterday (14 May) after finding him guilty on two counts of breaching a temporary stop notice by continuing to build a large and prominent front extension at his home Wheatfield, in Wash Road, without planning permission.
The enforcement notice, which orders him to take down the extension, remains in force. The case began late in 2006 when Basildon planners issued a temporary stop notice as the large extension was being built. A second stop notice and an enforcement notice followed in 2007 when work on the structure continued.
Mr Dunn applied for retrospective planning permission but this was refused. An appeal against this decision also failed. More time was allowed for Mr Dunn to comply with the enforcement order and when this was not implemented, the council prosecuted.
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