A father is planning to go to court after being ordered by his local council to demolish four luxury cabins with hot tubs because he did not have the correct planning permission for them. John Phillips, 39, built the four chalets in his garden in the Gower, South Wales, in 2022, to rent on Airbnb for up to £185 a night. However, he has since been ordered to tear them down because he didn’t have the necessary planning permission.
Swansea council turned down his retrospective planning application for the chalets, which overlook the Wales Coast Path and Loughor Estuary, in July last year and sent him an enforcement notice four months later. The notice said that Phillips had to stop renting the cabins, demolish them and tidy up the land within six months. This is despite the council awarding permission to another house in the village to build an Airbnb, Philips said.
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