JOKER Jake the Rake has built a 20ft beacon to commemorate the Castle Hill hotel planning saga.
The self-styled "professional eccentric" has spent four months and more than £200 building the impressive half-tonne structure.
Now the 66-year-old wants Kirklees Council safety officers to go to Lindley Moor where the beacon has gone on show.
Jake, of Lindley Moor, is hoping they will give him the green light to take the beacon to Castle Hill.
"It has been my obsession for the last four months," said Jake.
"I was up on Castle Hill and noticed the old beacon had gone missing. I decided I should build another one.
"Now I want the council to tell me if any more work needs to be done to it and then I will take it to Castle Hill and leave it there permanently."
The towering beacon is made from timber and steel and also pokes fun at failed Castle Hill hotel developers the Thandi Partnership.
The inscription on the beacon reads: "At the battle of Trafalgar the English flattened the Froggies. Here on historic Castle Hill the Thandis met their Waterloo with the watchful people of Huddersfield."
But Jake has not reserved his criticism just for the Thandi brothers.
"We used to have a wonderful pub and it has been knocked down," he said.
"If it had not been for the people of Huddersfield keeping a close eye on what was happening on Castle Hill, the council would no doubt have let the monstrosity that was built there stay up."
A council spokesman said: "No comment."
