Plan row over Irvine home

Saturday 28 March 1998 00:02 GMT

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COUNCIL officials yesterday visited the Scottish retreat of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, to check allegations that he carried out building work without permission.

Argyll and Bute council said a senior building control inspector and a joiner visited the property on Kintyre peninsula which Lord Irvine bought 10 years ago.

An anonymous letter to the council had alleged that work had been done to stables at Loup House, near Clachan, for which Lord Irvine did not have permission. The allegations follow a furore over the cost of refurbishing the Lord Chancellor's official apartments at Westminster.

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