‘The Council’s mistake cost me £10,000.  I could have bought my father  a wheelchair and given him dignity and mobility. Instead, it went to lawyers and architects defending my home against a basic error’

‘The Council’s mistake cost me £10,000. I could have bought my father a wheelchair and given him dignity and mobility. Instead, it went to lawyers and architects defending my home against a basic error’

Notting Hill resident Dr Michael Young has been put through two-and-a-half years of hell fighting a planning enforcement notice issued by RBKC council against a wooden terrace screen that its senior officers had already approved.  Here, The Citizen gives volume to his...