‘Three little pigs’ to get the chop?

News just in – It has emerged that the story of “The Three Little Pigs” may have to be withdrawn from book stores and re-written when it was discovered this week that none of the pigs had planning permission for their houses.

In fact all three houses mentioned in the well known story have now been branded as ‘illegal developments’ and while it is believed that two of the developments – the straw and stick houses – have since been demolished, the third structure is, at this point, still standing.

According to council sources an effort to serve an order on the occupants of the house proved unsuccessful when the council official serving the notice slipped and fell into a large vat of boiling water.

It is understood that among the features of concern to the planning department was the fact that the letter-box for the house was, for some strange reason, located on the chimney.

However it is also believed that there were a series of other issues of concern expressed about the mixed multi-development, which sprang up in three adjacent sites.

“Serious concerns had been expressed by the Fire Officer about the safety standards of the stick and straw houses and considering the fact that neither had been granted planning permission it was decided to have them demolished.”

However that decision has been blasted by Chris P. Bacon, spokesman for the pigs, who insisted they were Danish and did not know they needed to apply for planning permission.

“I have never come across a rasher decision in all my life. All we were trying to do was to keep the wolf from the door, but now we have to deal with this. It’s like we’re being put through the bacon slicer for no reason,” he said.

He suggested that an application was being made for retention for the brick house, but suggested that a stumbling block (and not the one on the roof that the council agent fell over) was the fact that the pigs were not local even though they had lived in the area for some time after arriving from Denmark.

“At the minute we are hoping to get a letter from some local politicians stating that the pigs have lived in the area for a long time. If it works it could really save our bacon,” said one of the pigs.

However it is thought that planners have them by the short and curlies and the brick house is also facing the chop.

Meanwhile a spokesperson for the Fairy Tale Wolves Association has said they are delighted it has finally emerged that they were not responsible for the demolition of the two houses or indeed for frightening occupants of the third house.

“A number of stories have circulated which have adversely affected our reputation and have led to a widespread notion that for some reason we are ‘big and bad.’

We’re delighted that the truth is finally out because all this talk of us being bad is just an ‘howl wives tale’ their spokesman concluded.