Posted on 06/18/2009 7:58:16 AM PDT by Daffynition
An eco-warrior has been evicted from the cave he lives in on his allotment patch in Brighton, East Sussex, because it doesn't have a fire exit.
Hilaire Purbrick, 45, has inhabited the seven-foot cave he dug on his plot and dined off the land for the past 16 years.
But after having the dwelling checked by the fire brigade, Brighton and Hove City Council decided it did not have enough exits and sought an injunction banning him from entering it.
Mr Purbrick ignored the order and continued to live in the cave, but was pulled back into court on Tuesday when a judge granted the council a possession order which will allow him to be formally evicted and banned indefinitely from the site.
Mr Purbrick now plans to take his fight to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming his right to a private life and freedom has been breached by the order.
"I am still living there and intend to continue to do so," he said. "I know lots of people in this town who live in houses with only one door with no fire exit."
The keen gardener has a history of overcoming legal challenges to his earthy home.
In 1999, town hall authorities threatened to remove him, claiming he was running an illegal vegetable shop.
But Mr Purbick won a reprieve after claiming his site "was hardly a Sainsbury's" and he only had one customer – a pregnant woman who bought his sprouts.
The following year he successfully fought an eviction order after complaints he was keeping chickens and bees without permission.
Granting the possession order at Brighton County Court, Judge Jonathan Simpkiss said there were legitimate health and safety concerns that the cave could collapse.
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No fire exit...sheesh
flammable rocks I guess.
“An eco-warrior has been evicted from the cave he lives in on his allotment patch in Brighton, East Sussex, because it doesn’t have a fire exit.”
Surprised he wasn’t hailed as the “missing link” and paraded through the scientific journals...
“Mr Purbrick now plans to take his fight to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming his right to a private life and freedom has been breached by the order”
Yea, Let me know how that works out for yah.
LOL
I’ll see your sheesh & raise you one. He also ran an “illegal vegetable shop”
I haven’t been in many caves with fire exits either.
What...the fire brigade thinks the cave might catch on fire?
Fire?
Oh, the inSANITY!!!!
Oh the irony...lol.
Here is a guy who wants the government to control the entire global environment(as if they could), living on a government alloted plot of ground and moaning about government meddling and probably using government funds to fight them in a government court....LOL!!
I'm waiting for a Home Inspector Closeau series to show up on the TeeVee (that would be the new code compliant teevee)where courageous inspectors battle substandard dwellings and their owners to ensure that the code is obeyed.
Big brother says you can’t even be a hermit these days.
Big brother says you can’t even be a hermit these days.
The creepiest phrase in this is “allotment patch”.
hoist with his own libtard
Once again proving that politics is all about POWER. Nothing else, just naked power.
Well, there goes my exit strategy. Seems like if his cave was a danger to him, why not let him be a ‘darwin award’ winner. A liberal is losing his liberty to nanny state he helps perpetuate: TOLDYOUSO, TOLDYOUSO.......
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