Grand Designs UK With Kevin McCloud | Yorkshire | Season 5 Episode 13 | Full Episode | SPECIAL 

I bet it's more in today's money

If not mistaken, I remember seeing Grand Designs revisit this place in season 9.

it looks exactly the same.

Totally agree, they don’t want to spend money but expect others to go by their rulings. The mind boggles

Never thought they would do it in "just" two years! Amazing!

Agreed. They seem to make it so hard to do anything with these old buildings, offer no financial compensation, block every effort to try move ahead at a pace that is feasible, but then sit around complaining that these buildings are falling down and no one wants to help. It's so silly. I understand that they're trying to maintain certain standards to maintain the authenticity of the structures, but honestly if they don't step up and make it more of a help than a hindrance they're going to lose the buildings because no one will be interested in dealing with that red tape. Honestly after watching that guy from the heritage council just justifying the actions of the council with such glee and zero sympathy for the home owner, I'd just be like f this, the thing can fall down its not worth dealing with them. That attitude is also just really stupid. The type of people who restore ancient buildings like this privately are not millionaires. Millionaires build from scratch coz cost isn't a consideration. Honest hard working people scrape together funds to restore something like this because it's a dream and passion. They're shooting themselves in the foot big time having this attitude that potential building savors must just be prepared to drown in debt while dealing with their 💩. Because honestly no building is worth dealing with people like that, which is another reason that rich people won't bother they're going to lose the things they're trying to protect. Rather go to France. They seem to be a bit more liberal and helpful there wrt to trying to get people to restore their historical buildings.

Bureaucracy! I bet King Charley doesn’t have to answer to them.

Right????

All through, it kept popping up into my mind - why not write a letter to Charles (Prince as he was then) to see if he could come up with a grant or low interest loan? Him being so keen on preserving the heritage of the country.

Right. English Heritage doesn’t care enough to provide grants.

-Your sentiment certainly has merit, but once an ancient site is changed, the ability for people to ever explore its history is forever harmed. Whether one family gets to live in a childhood dream castle is of little consequence to the rest of humanity. But the active---if unintentional--destruction of our access to history permanently destroys all ability to know that portion of the past. In the case of England, the massive construction and alteration projects of the 1800s permanently destroyed a lot of access to England's history. They are loathe to repeat that mistake so easily again.

Ancient site was about to be a pile of rubble.

​@@Nosmaclearwell, thanks to this documentation, the archeology doesn't stand in danger of being neglected.

I thought he sounded like Gromit's Wallace.

Considering they were content to just allow the place to crumble into ruin, they should have been glad of someone wanting to bring it back to life, and not nitpick.

Love can make you crazy.

So many worse things to be owned by.

It's TV. They gotta thread the emotions through to the end of the show.