Council to bulldoze £2m home for being 'too high'

A £2m luxury home in Cheshire faces being bulldozed because its ceilings are 1.2m too high.

Macclesfield council has served a demolition notice on the six-bedroom home in Mere.

Its owners have four months to knock down the property, which has a gym, snooker room and library, and was bought two years ago for £250,000.

Permission had been granted to replace a cottage on the site with a bigger home, but the developers allegedly failed to adhere to plans.

They increased the property’s height by raising ceilings to install air conditioning to cater for the owner’s wife who has severe asthma, reported the Daily Mail.

A council spokesperson said the new home was three times the size of the original, but that the demolition order would be contested.