Drug dealer's granny flat approved by council after it was built without planning permission
drug dealer.Scott Bennett’s latest victory came despite him misleading South Lanarkshire Council in his original application.Bennett, 39, who was jailed in 2016 for dealing cannabis and survived a 2018 gangland assassination attempt, had claimed he was changing an outbuilding’s use to a flat.But historic photos proved there had never been a building there.The granny flat is just yards from kennels built by Bennett at Brae Farm, near Chapelton, which were also granted retrospective planning permission despite being built without approval.In February, Bennett won an appeal to keep his kennels, which planners were told by objectors would be a puppy farm.That decision came just a month after he was fined £1000 at Hamilton Sheriff Court after he