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Businessman Luke Perret, 31, has been ordered to tear down his £200,000 garden annexe after Warrington Borough Council ruled it was actually a full two-bed home with a basement, study room and walk-in wardrobe. He built the detached property over three years intending it as a one-bed annexe for his mother-in-law, but the council says it was materially different from the 2020 approved plans and constructed without proper consent. The original permission had expired because work was not started in time, and two retrospective appeals were dismissed. Perret, who owns a tech shop, said “I’m not paying a penny to have a perfectly good house knocked down. They are the ones who will have to pay for it – because I’m not.” He is preparing a revised planning application and has offered to remodel the building by removing dormers and reducing the height by 1.5 metres.