The Duchess of Cornwall’s neighbors at her Wiltshire home have been given permission to build a holiday home accessible from the driveway.
Camilla, 74, who has previously complained three times about remodeling the property next door, now faces the prospect of dealing with Airbnb-style tourists.
The Duchess’s listed building, Ray Mill House in Lacock, Wiltshire, has only one immediate neighbor, The Old Mill, which belongs to Phil Clayton. The two sites share a private path.
Camilla uses her historic estate to get away from the Highgrove House estate of her husband, Prince Charles, which is open to the public during the summer months and receives more than 40,000 visitors a year.
But the 74-year-old is much to the ire of locals, with his closest neighbors, the Claytons, who have been renovating their property for the past five years.
Both share the same private driveway, and the Claytons have received permission from Wiltshire Council to convert the first floor of a former garage into a one-bedroom tourist apartment.
The Duchess of Cornwall’s neighbors from her Wiltshire townhouse have received permission to build a driveway-accessible vacation retreat.
Camilla, 74 (pictured), who has complained three times about remodeling the property next door, now faces the prospect of dealing with Airbnb-style tourists.
The plans led to seven complaints, including the Lacock Parish Council and local Conservative Chairman Peter Hickman, who shared the same private access route, saying “There is no commercial right-of-way and we disagree.”
The landlord, Trudy, wrote a letter to the city council, responding to local residents complaining about the rentals.
He said: “I find it very difficult to understand why people who are totally uninterested in the improvements we’ve made at the Old Mill are wasting so much time and energy over and over… still the same group of people, whatever the objection is, the point of the question. planning.
“I think it’s pretty sad for them. Their time and energy can be used for a much more valuable purpose.”
While Camilla didn’t complain about this particular planning request, she wasn’t happy with the original 2017 proposal to demolish the garage and replace it with a two-story building that the Claytons have now adapted to house the vacation home.
II in Wiltshire. The grade-listed Ray Mill House (pictured above) was built in 1860.
Aerial view of the Duchess of Cornwall, Ray Mill House’s mansion in Wiltshire
Highgrove Estate Manager, Charlie Craven, wrote on behalf of the royal family that he was concerned about the flooding and the “negative impact on the river’s water flow during times of flooding”.
He was also interested in the design of the garage, saying it “doesn’t fit in a normal garage as it has three large windows and one door.”
In March 2018, the royal family twice objected to the Claytons’ plans to demolish another annex to convert it into a grandparents’ apartment.
In his first letter on the problem of reflooding, Mr. Craven noted: “I have been with Ray Mill House for six years and the river has been flooded many times.”
He added another objection: “I am now concerned that the proposed design appears larger and taller than the existing building, which clearly contradicts the Design Statement, which means it will remain unchanged.”
Despite complaints, the Claytons changed their plans and their grandmother’s apartment was approved in December 2018.
With the proceeds from her divorce from Andrew Parker Bowles, Camilla purchased the property for £850,000 in 1996 and is a welcome change from Highgrove, just 15 minutes’ drive away.
A source told Express columnist Adam Helliker: “He could sit at Ray Mill with a big G&T, take off his shoes, and look at Coronation Street, which Charles hated.
“She doesn’t even have to worry about the appearance of the place – Charles is very picky about cleaning, leaving his stuff all over the place. He doesn’t need to clean his pillows all the time.
However, he has been in charge of the Claytons’ renovations since buying it from longtime owner Ralph Adams, who died in 2017 and also got into an argument with the Duchess in 2006 over an overgrown fence.
The bush got so out of control that garbage collectors refused to step back into the narrow driveway to pick up trash, angering some by telling residents to pull their trash cans onto the main road.
Mr Adams, a retired sand trader, said: “It’s hard for me to walk 400 meters, but I can find a butler to do it.
Mr Clayton’s house in Wiltshire, The Old Mill, in the picture, shares the same road as the Duchess’ house.
The garage previously seen on The Old Mill. In March 2018, the royal family twice objected to the Claytons’ plans to demolish another annex to create an apartment for their grandmother.
“It might be okay for him, but I’m 83 and have arthritis and collapsed intervertebral discs. He has to cut the fence. It goes out a meter more than it should.’
That same year, it was revealed that the Daily Mail had paid a £1.8m security bill at the taxpayer’s home, along with the area named ‘Camillashire’.
In June last year, the Claytons applied for permission to build a pottery shed, locals worried it would be used as a summer home, and Dr. Louise Heren says, “It’s too untidy for a ‘Pen’ to have a patio, so what? That’s why,” he said.
It received nine complaints, and the parish council added that “there are concerns about the amount of temporary developments going on at this site.”
“By disguising a summer house as a warehouse, the consultants insult the intelligence of both the planning authority and the neighbors,” says Mr Hickman.
Source: Daily Mail
