A WEALTHY dad is in a battle over a "bonkers" £1.6m row of four luxury homes for his three daughters - because they reckon they cannot afford to leave home. Businessman Mark Jukes, 61, wants to build the four lavish homes-from-home for his three girls on a green field next to their plush family house .
And the three sisters - schoolteacher Celyn, waitress Sara and saleswoman Carys - have put their names to the planning application to build four "affordable" homes next to each other. But planning chiefs ruled that describing the four new detached houses as affordable for most local people was “bonkers”. The three sisters sought permission for the three and four-bed detached homes in a line in an agricultural field at Cardigan , West Wales, next to their existing family home.
Each would have a house with en suite bedrooms, home office and plush open-plan kitchens opening onto the garden - with a fourth lined up for the sister of Mr Jukes. Mr Jukes runs a successful storage and container business in the Welsh market town where the average house price is £231,000 with planning chiefs saying his plans are "in the £400,000 bracket". Agent Harries Planning Design Management said: “The applicants are the three daughters and sister of Mr Jukes.
The three daughters currently reside at Drws Y Coed with their parents, who run Mark Jukes Container s, a very successful family business in Cardigan. “The three sisters have lived at Drws Y Coed since birth. "Ms Celyn Jukes is a sec.