Sadly, the bad news continues to come. After the devastating fire of Saturday night, the remains were demolished without approval on Monday evening. South Staffordshire Council have today released the following statement:

“Our officers carried out a site visit to the site yesterday (August 7th), prior to the demolition of the building.

“Officers agreed a programme of works with the landowner’s representative to ensure the safety of the building and the wider site.

“The agreed course of action included the removal of three elements of the first-floor front elevation only. This was only to avoid the weak parts of the structure from falling.

“At no point did the council agree the demolition of the whole structure nor was this deemed necessary.

“This council finds the manner in which the situation was managed following the fire completely unacceptable and contrary to instructions provided by our officers.

“As such, we are currently investigating potential breaches of both the Town and Country Planning Act and the Buildings Act.

“Demolition of a building should be carried out in accordance with Schedule 2 Part 11 Class B of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015. The steps required by the legislation were not carried out in this case.

“We have referred these matters to our legal team with a view to taking enforcement action' 


Clearly, this petition needs adapting once more. We have over 12,000 signatures and I hope those people will all agree that we should keep fighting. We have to change the purpose to 'rebuilding the Crooked House from scratch.'

Please remove your signature if you no longer agree with the updated version and please keep sharing it if you do.

We have to wait to see what the investigation finds and what, if any, action is deemed necessary by the authorities as a result of that. We may need to adapt our goal again.

I want to thank everybody again for all the support shown so far.