Any visit to Lacock, Wiltshire can bring on that déjà vu feeling.
Stepping along the high street one can be forgiven for thinking Judi Dench is opening her front door in Cranford, Daniel Ratcliffe is having a private tutorial with Professor Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), and Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth are avoiding each other through most of Pride and Prejudice.
Outside London, Lacock may be one of the most popular film locations in Britain. If anyone's done a headcount tally it would be interesting to know.
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Saturday, 27 March 2010
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
The rise of the NITBY: Not In Thy Back Yard
Reigate farmer, Robert Fidler, is going to have to knock down his fortress and his mock-tudor house, built without planning permission on his green-belt farm.
A case of an Englishman's castle no longer being his home.
But think of the chaos that would result without urban planning laws. There would be no green space left for all the extensions, vanity mansions and second holiday homes. A cross between Los Angeles, Manhattan and Las Vegas, perhaps?
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