# Teddington homeowner given nine months to replace rendered dormer with tiles

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/businessman-must-tear-down-dormer-he-built-at-1-3m-home-after-using-wrong-building-materials/
- Published: 2026-10-25T12:35:58+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-25T12:47:17+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16233341/Businessman-tear-dormer-built-1-3m-home-using-wrong-building-materials.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Business, Markets, World

## Key points

- A planning inspector upheld the council’s enforcement notice.
- The dormer must be altered within nine months.
- Morillon estimates the work will cost £25,000.

## Summary

Christopher Morillon, a cyber-security headhunter, has been ordered to alter the dormer on his renovated £1.3 million home in Teddington after using white render instead of the roof tiles shown in approved plans. A planning inspector upheld Richmond upon Thames Council’s enforcement notice, giving Morillon and his partner nine months to make the extension comply.

The couple bought the semi-detached house for £815,000 in 2018 and completed renovations, including the dormer, in 2023. The council said the render was not a traditional roof material and made the dormer look stark and out of place among nearby roof extensions; Morillon estimates the required work will cost about £25,000.

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