REIGATE and Banstead Borough Council has spent around £50,000 fighting a farmer who built a "castle" without planning permission on the green belt.The authority has been locked in a planning battle with Robert Fidler for nearly ten years, after he unveiled the home he had built in secret in 2002 and hidden behind straw bales for four years.Mr Fidler, who has been farming on the Honeycrock Farm site off Axes Lane, Salfords, for 40 years, built the citadel complete with mock Tudor...
