Fawlty-esque

May 7 2008

An architect has been dubbed his industry's very own Basil Fawlty after he threw a John Cleese-eque tantrum on a planning application.

John Jessop, who works for Carlisle Jessop in Somerset, was so outraged at the tortuous planning process needed to build a farmyard shed, that he handed in a sarcasm-ridden form to Mendip County Council.

Under the Contextual Analysis section, Mr Jessop, 57, wrote: "The use is compatible with a farm because it is a farm building. It is located where it is because it is the most convenient place, being on the farm and near the farmhouse. The historic environment is a farm, the density is like a farm, the social context is a farm in the country."