A couple who turned their pub into a house without permission have been ordered to pay £17,000, Cherwell District Council said yesterday.

The council said Jacqueline and Geoffrey Noquet submitted seven planning permission requests to change the Bishop Endpub in Burdrop, near Banbury, into a home, which were all refused.

They were found guilty on Monday at Oxford Magistrates’ Court of failing to comply with an enforcement notice, told to pay £8,527.50 each and given a 12 month conditional discharge.

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