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Hope for Doctor Who fan’s Dalek as councillors urged to save its shed from extermination

Hope for Doctor Who fan’s Dalek as councillors urged to save its shed from extermination

A sci-fi enthusiast whose model Dalek angered planning officials is hoping councillors will “see sense” and let him keep the tourist attraction. Art teacher Neil Cole was ordered to ‘exterminate’ the small wooden shed which houses a full-sized Doctor Who villain in January, when bureaucrats told him the structure contravened the grade-II listed status of his home. After applying for retrospective planning permission for the shed, which helps advertise the small museum of science fiction memorabilia in the basement of…

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