Rather more worryingly for me was I was thinking of bulldozers from your first sentence.

I don't have your problem as I take an active interest in local planning issues ("beware of the tiger" sign and all).

Rather more worryingly for me was I was thinking of bulldozers from your first sentence.

The post title could have hinted it to you, perhaps? You might not need to be worried immediately...

Surely in reality they couldn't just drive a bulldozer on to your property and knock it down? They'd have to slap a compulsory purchase order on you in order to buy the land back, and then you'd be sure to know about it in advance because you'd have the money, the convenient accessibility of planning notices (or lack thereof) notwithstanding. The Hitch-Hiker opening scene is a masterpiece of comic fiction, no question about that, but it is fiction :-)

(I suppose as a renter there is conceivably the possibility that the landlord might have gone through all the compulsory-purchase paperwork and have forgotten to let the tenant know, but it doesn't seem likely; in reality I'd receive my n months' notice just like any other reason for terminating the tenancy.)

Also, it was a leopard! :-)

I think that depends on which is your local planning office.

And how long it is since you last watched/listened.