{"id":15048,"date":"2012-05-14T08:08:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15048"},"modified":"2021-07-16T13:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T17:40:59","slug":"but-the-bedrooms-are-in-the-railway-carriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/but-the-bedrooms-are-in-the-railway-carriage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;but the bedrooms are in the railway carriage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is presented as a &#8220;bureaucracy run wild&#8221; kind of story, but I find it hard to believe that <em>any<\/em> planning committee &mdash; even a British one &mdash; would insist that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2143802\/Is-strangest-home-Britain-The-bungalow-thats-built-real-railway-carriage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">railway carriage<\/a> could acquire &#8220;grandfather rights&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When it comes to building a comfortable bungalow, Jim Higgins has got the inside track.<\/p>\n<p>The retired transport manager, 60, has one of the most unique houses in Britain&#8230; because it is built around a real railway carriage.<\/p>\n<p>The property in Ashton, Cornwall, is a fully functioning house but bizarrely has the fully restored 130-year-old Great Western Railway car within its walls.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Higgins, 64, originally from Buckinghamshire took over the property from his former father-law Charles Allen who was forced to build it around the railway carriage because bizarre planning regulations meant the train could not be moved.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Higgins said: &#8216;The railway carriage was lived in by a local woman Elizabeth Richards from 1930.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is presented as a &#8220;bureaucracy run wild&#8221; kind of story, but I find it hard to believe that any planning committee &mdash; even a British one &mdash; would insist that a railway carriage could acquire &#8220;grandfather rights&#8221;. When it comes to building a comfortable bungalow, Jim Higgins has got the inside track. The retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,237],"tags":[52,1429,426],"class_list":["post-15048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-railways","tag-absurd","tag-greatwesternrailway","tag-housing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3UI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67164,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048\/revisions\/67164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}