I grew up in a quaint British farming village, and I'm pretty conflicted about this story.<p>- My family are all nurses, and my brother and sister can't dream of buying a house in our home-town, it's too expensive.<p>- The planning restrictions are pretty draconian. This keeps the supply of housing very limited, but also prevents the fields between us and the next village from being covered in houses and turning us into a suburb of Cambridge.<p>- The local farmers own land that's benefited from the rise in prices, and so tend to be pretty rich, hence the castle-building.<p>So I do end up admiring this guy's chutzpah, but I can't summon up too much sympathy when everyone else is stuck following the rules. I'd be much more interested in a campaign to change the planning regulations and skip the current uber-NIMBYism.