A TROWBRIDGE builder who is defying a Wiltshire Council enforcement notice has appeared in court at Swindon.
Michael Thomas, 71, from Staverton, faces two charges relating to work on a property at 12 Newtown in Trowbridge.
He is charged with allegedly breaching an enforcement notice issued by Wiltshire Council in September 2020 ordering him to stop work on his conversion of a former pizza takeaway shop into a house of multiple occupancy.
He is also charged with allegedly failing to comply with a Wiltshire Council notice concerning an interest in land under the Town & Country Planning Act 1990.
The hearing at Swindon Magistrates Court on Friday, October 27 was adjourned to Friday, November 17 to enable the court to tie his case to charges faced by a co-defendant.
In September, Mr Thomas unveiled a stone 'gargoyle' at one end of 12 Newtown carved in a likeness of Trowbridge Town Council leader Stewart Palmen.
Cllr Palmen, who had led objections to the shop conversion, said he had found the grotesque amusing.
The building at 12 Newtown is not listed but lies within the Trowbridge conservation area.
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