Yesterday we reported that a 15 feet tall AT-ST had turned up on the side of the A38, near Ashburton in Devon. Teignbridge Council has now asked Paul Parker to remove the AT-ST; here’s an update as promised…
Mr Parker – who owns the field the AT-ST is now installed in – said it was harmless, and explained local businesses had published a naked calendar in the past and were now “trying to find something else” to do to raise Ashburton’s profile.
He said he was expecting to be contacted by the council though and continued: “I can understand it, I haven’t got planning permission, so I have got to put a retrospective planning application in for it.
“Ninety-nine per cent of the comments have been positive, but obviously you have people that don’t like it – you can’t please everybody all the time.”
The council said after 21 days it would send an official enforcement letter.
Creator Dean Harvey – who said he was not a Star Wars fan – originally built the replica four years ago as a climbing frame for his daughters.
He said it took him more than 400 hours to make, but now that his daughters were older, he had decided to give it to Mr Parker.
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