Like many people throughout the world my finances were severely depleted when the recession struck in 2007.
Having built up a property developing portfolio I was in the middle of a project to get planning for and then build 20 homes. At one point I was offered £1.4 million as soon as I had planning passed and to be honest I was considering it. Thanks to my great neighbours what the Planning Office thought would take 6 months actually dragged on for over 6 years and so by the time approval...