A smallholder has won a £30,000 battle after planners took him to court for leaving furniture at a barn where he had once lived illegally.Michael Baggs converted part of a barn on his four-acre farm near Bideford into a home but was forced to move out after losing a marathon planning dispute in 2011.He was ordered to remove anything that could be used to make the barn habitable but a planning officer from North Devon found a cooker, chairs, and sideboard during checks in September 2013 and...
