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Friday, 4 March 2011

The pool that popped up at a council house

A Google Earth image shows the swimming pool at a council house near Doncaster which eluded the housing assocation's notice.

The pool is about in a patio on the modest three bedroom semi in a sorter mining village and that is so large it may be clearly seen on Google Earth.
The pool, which takes up some of the los angelesrge back garden of the home, was spotted by a member of a hoemployingcontrolcompany who was finishing up routine checks on houses within the village of Rossington, close toDoncaster.
St Leger Homes, which shall weout properties on bepartof Doncaster Council, has now launched an investigation.
Neighbours named the couple as David and Lisa Frost, both within the ir forties, who moved within the red brick built spacealmostsix years ago.
Mr Frost, a landscape gardener spent thousands of pounds renovating the run down property that had previously been the spaceof an elderly woman for a few years.
the internal was given a pricey facelift including wooden flooring and was redecorated. He installed large wooden gates on front of the right kindty and neighbours watched as builder moved to dig up the los angelesrge back garden and started laying the pool, skirting it with wooden decking and dadving.
A six foot topwall of brick and woodenwas erected across the garden to fence it for privacy.
because then the couple, who've two young sons, have staged several summer pool parties for friends and relatives, but no neighbours have also been invited.
round the corner neighbour, 84 year old widow Gwendoline Taylor said: "i will be able to peer the pool from my bedroom window and that it takes up all of the garden with the decking around it.
"They use it rather a lot when the elements is kthey usually have got had a couple of parties with friends. however there hasn't ever been any noise with the exception of the splashing around.
" i've no ideawhether or not they have got permissidirectly to construct the pool or not, it is nothing to do with me. however they have got done an actually projob with it.
" they seem to be a lovelycouple and since the day they moved within the y have got almethodsbeen very greatto me and that i do know that if i needthem they are going to be there. They almethodsspeak to me and dadss the time of day."
Another neighbour added: "It was a little of a wonderonce they first moved in and began doing all this figure. this can be a council estate and that it is not this type of road while you standardly discover a luxury swimming pool in a garden.
"There hasn't ever been any problem, the don't combinemuch with the neighbours alalthoughthey're delightfulenough, they retawithin the mselves to themselves.
"they have got had barbecue and fizzl parties over the time they have been hear however they don't seem to be nuisance neighbours and there is never been an issue.
"He works as a landscape gardener and has a truck and so far as i'm consciousthey don't seem to be on benefits or anything like that.
There has obviously been rather a lot of cash about because with the exception of the cash they've spent at the home there were a lot of posh cars parked outside including Mercedes and BMWs."
a lady, believed to be Mrs Frost, answered the door but refused to comment.
A spokesman for the corporate said: "We undertake tenancy verification visits on our properties to be sure that tenants don't seem to be illegally subletting their homes.
"We also select issues this type ofs tenants own improvements where permission has not been sort.
"Permission for the pool was not sought previous to it'sing built and do not were granted.
"we're currently investigating the history following our staff reporting its existence.
"All applicants for a council home at the moment are assessed financially before they're eligible for a correctty."

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