The Water Tower , a concrete 1920's Helter Skelter style folly on Wappingthorn Farm , Steyning , Sussex is creating concern for Horsham District Council as it conflicts with housing and countryside policies. The de Boer family who own the bizarre folly with accommodation above and below a huge water tank that supplies the 300 acre farm with water have until 1st April to evict their novelist tenant as they say it cannot be classified as a dwelling. As discussions and a possible public inquiry continue, the family want it occupied possibly as a summer house to prevent it falling into ruin and


The Water Tower , a concrete 1920's Helter Skelter style folly on Wappingthorn Farm , Steyning , Sussex is creating concern for Horsham District Council as it conflicts with housing and countryside policies. The de Boer family who own the bizarre folly with accommodation above and below a huge water tank that supplies the 300 acre farm with water have until 1st April to evict their novelist tenant as they say it cannot be classified as a dwelling. As discussions and a possible public inquiry continue, the family want it occupied possibly as a summer house to prevent it falling into ruin and suffering from vandalism . 30 March 1990


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