A developer who mistakenly built a $1.8 million waterfront house on parkland has been ordered to remove it.

The Rhode Island Supreme Court found that the Narragansett home was built entirely on land owned by the Rose Nulman Park Foundation, and therefore must be removed.

The developer, Four Twenty Corp, began building the home in 2009, but it did not discover the error until 2011. It argued it should not be penalised for an innocent surveying mistake. The court said the park's property rights outweighed that.

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