@Sue B I realky feel your pain and frustation .
You’ve acted exactly as i would ( i swear a lot more though )
Record ALL conversations . Buy a recording pen - not from ebay ! . A professional espionage one ; like I did .
They don’t like you now so (expletive deleted) ‘em .
Go for broke .
An issue is the height of the build yes ?.
One of my meetings with the council went ... ( all recorded of course )
” I will make sure you never get planning until the day i retire “
me “ when do you retire ? “
” 7 years “
me “ fine no problem “
” you cant build up , back , forward nor left or right “
(expletive deleted)er didnt say i couldnt build down
I in the end put in planning for a large garage for my extensive car collection consisting of 1 smart car .
This was approved
I then put other things in place one at a time over the years to avoid any suspicion .
Once the chessboard was setup i then went for change of use .
I beat the (expletive deleted)ers at the twatty council vote .
Dont be kind be cunning . Dont be afraid to be bloody minded and aggressive .
Many ways to skin a cat . The cat will be skinned no matter how blunt the knife is .