Record fine for man who demolished house without permission.
John Johnson, 50, was ordered to pay £80,000 for the demolition of a house in Twickenham’s Trafalgar Road Conservation Area – along with £42,500 toward Richmond Council’s court costs, when he appeared at Kingston Crown Court this week.
The fine is the highest imposed for demolishing of a building in a conservation area in UK history.
The court heard how neighbours had been left “angered and frightened” when on January 7, 2011, the entire house, which dates back to 1845, was bulldozed to the ground without any notice.
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