An East End house dubbed 'Britain's narrowest' is to be torn down after a London council won a legal fight with its owner.
The makeshift wooden structure, jammed between two homes in Leyton, was built in place of a garage last May.
Owner Mohammed Akhlaq, 53, built a bathroom, kitchen and internal walls within the poky property after its conversion.
But his grand design, in Manor Road, was stopped in its tracks when council inspectors insisted he return the building to its former use as a garage.
Akhlaq appealed against Waltham Forest's order, but national planning chiefs stepped in and upheld the notice.
He now has three months to revert the building back to its previous use as a garage - and could also be faced with costs.
Neighbours had been left baffled when the structure, which is no more than a couple of metres wide, cropped up in their road last year.
IT consultant Esther Regenwetter, 41, said: “For a long time it was a horrible shed, not even a garage. They seem to have put this bizarre front on it, but what was there before was really, really horrible. I don’t have anything against it.”
Akhlaq could not be reached for a comment.
