Owners of the Botanic Hotel in Hull, Kerry and Shaun Fitzgerald have been hit with a £70,000 bill for replacing the 172-year-old windows with modern double-glazing.
A landlady, Kelly Fitzgerald, faces a £70,000 bill after replacing her listed pub's rotting windows with double glazing without proper planning permission. The pub, the Botanic Hotel in Hull, is a mock-Tudor building protected under heritage laws. The council rejected her retrospective planning application, deeming the new windows unsuitable. Fitzgerald, unaware the pub was listed, argues the original windows were in disrepair. The council insists the changes harm the building's character.
