The outcome of a major planning dispute centred on the farm owned by Lincolnshire celebrity Farmer Wink will be decided within the next five weeks.
That's according to the government inspector who held a planning inquiry at Louth last week into the legality of Wink's brother, Richard Carlton, living in a breeze block structure at Amber Holme Farm, Hatton.
Mr Carlton, 60, who jointly owns the farm with Wink, built the two-room dwelling unit in the wake of the 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis to allow him to live alongside his stock - currently 130 lambing ewes and 60 cattle, including pedigree Lincoln Reds.
But the accommodation is extremely sparse, with an un-carpeted concrete floor in the bedsitting room and an asphalt floor in the bathroom which is divided off by a plywood partition.
