Captain Tom Moore’s daughter refuses to knock down spa and pool extension ‘constructed utilizing the lockdown hero’s identify’ at her £1.2m residence

Sir Captain Tom Moore‘s daughter has refused to knock down a spa and pool extension at her £1.2m residence after offended neighbours demanded it’s demolished.

Hannah Ingram-Moore, 52, and her husband Colin have been granted permission in 2021 to construct an L-shaped workplace constructing for the Captain Tom Basis within the grounds of their residence in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire. 

A retrospective software for a bigger constructing containing a spa pool was submitted a 12 months in the past after it had been constructed however was refused last month by the planning authority.

Central Bedfordshire Council mentioned following their choice that an enforcement discover requiring the demolition of the ‘now-unauthorised constructing’ had been issued and was topic to an enchantment to the Planning Inspectorate. 

The couple are actually interesting in opposition to the discover, saying that the constructing was ‘no extra overbearing’ than a beforehand accredited planning software and the ‘heights are the identical’, in keeping with paperwork. 

Sir Captain Tom Moore’s daughter has refused to knock down a spa and pool extension at her £1.2m residence after offended neighbours demanded it’s demolished

Hannah Ingram-Moore (pictured together with her father Sir Tom), 52, and her husband Colin have been granted permission in 2021 to construct an L-shaped workplace constructing for the Captain Tom Basis within the grounds of their residence in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire

Captain Sir Tom Moore raised £38 million for NHS Charities Collectively within the run as much as his one centesimal birthday in the course of the first lockdown in 2020. He died the next 12 months.

The enchantment assertion by Mr Ingram-Moore mentioned: ‘The topic constructing isn’t any extra overbearing than the consented scheme.

‘The view is just about similar save for a pitch roof being added to the elevational remedy. The heights are the identical. As such there can’t be an unacceptable overbearing impression.’

It additionally mentioned the council had ‘no grounds supporting the refusal of the retrospective software’ and ‘requested’ for the inspector to uphold the enchantment.

The doc additionally notes that the constructing is ready in the back of the positioning, that means it’s not a problem for public view.

The council mentioned its reviews ‘element hurt precipitated to the setting of the listed constructing and, specifically, the numerous distinction between the 2 schemes that arises from the dearth of enough public profit that has been proposed in respect of the unauthorised constructing’.

Paperwork from the native authorities physique additionally state that the demolition requirement will not be ‘extreme’ and the ‘measurement and scale of the unauthorised constructing’ has an adversarial impression on the Ingram-Moore’s neighbours.

The couple initially submitted an software which said the constructing could be used partly in reference to The Captain Tom Basis and its charitable targets’.

However, the muse made it clear in a press release final month that it had not been conscious of the development work of the constructing, saying: ‘Had they been conscious of any functions, the unbiased trustees wouldn’t have authorised them.’ 

Ms Ingram-Moore on ITV’s This Morning present in March 2022

The enchantment doc by Mr Ingram-Moore notes that the constructing is ready in the back of the positioning, that means it’s not a problem for public view

In August 2021, Mr and Mrs Ingram-Moore sought planning permission for a charity workplace which they mentioned was ‘urgently required’ for displays and memorabilia 

The constructing was given the inexperienced gentle, however a retrospective software for the spa advanced (pictured) made below their very own identify was refused final 12 months – that means that they face having to tear that down

Livid locals have also claimed the unique L-shaped workplace area was by no means constructed and as a substitute branded the constructing that the couple had constructed as ‘ugly’, a ‘full eyesore’ and ‘out of character’ with the native space. 

One couple, who requested to not be named, mentioned: ‘It is by no means been simply places of work or simply the L-shaped constructing they requested for, it is all the time been what it’s now.’

A neighbour who shares a boundary with the Ingram-Moores, added: ‘I solely discovered once I noticed the foundations being laid they usually have been a lot greater and deeper than any plans that I then noticed.

‘The unique L-shaped places of work have been by no means constructed. It has solely ever been that constructing that’s there now.

‘The constructing is far nearer to the partitions and boundary than we ever thought. I can not see something occurring inside although or individuals going out and in as there aren’t any home windows in any respect.

‘It is fairly excessive for a supposed one-storey constructing. It is undoubtedly excessive sufficient so as to add in a mezzanine in the event that they needed to. It could be sneaky however they might.’

Locals mentioned a petition to get the bigger constructing demolished had amassed round 100 signatures, with 20 lodging formal objections with Central Bedfordshire Council on the grounds that it wasn’t consistent with the realm, blocked views and intruded on privateness.

One of many complaints said: ‘I’m shocked on the full lack of session by the applicant with the neighbours on the boundary of the event whose residential amenity has all been severely harmed.’

Objections to the pool spa block planning software from native residents

In August 2021, the couple sought planning permission for a charity workplace which they mentioned was ‘urgently required’ for displays and memorabilia.

The constructing was given the inexperienced gentle, however a retrospective software for the spa advanced made below their very own identify was refused final 12 months.

Central Bedfordshire Council confirmed in a press release that the unique software for the workplace had been accredited.

However it added: ‘In February 2022, we subsequently acquired a retrospective planning software for a ‘half retrospective erection of indifferent single storey constructing (revised proposals)’. This was refused.

‘An enforcement discover requiring the demolition of the now unauthorised constructing was issued and that is now topic to an enchantment to the Planning Inspectorate.’

Sir Tom raised £38.9 million for the NHS, together with present support, by strolling 100 laps of his backyard earlier than his one centesimal birthday on the peak of the primary nationwide Covid-19 lockdown in April 2020.

In acknowledgement of his efforts, he was knighted by the late Queen throughout a singular open-air ceremony at Windsor Fortress in summer season 2020. 

He died in February 2021.

The Captain Tom Basis was registered on June 5, 2020 following his fundraising efforts. Pictured: Sir Tom and his daughter Hannah have a good time his 100 laps 

Sir Tom Moore (pictured entrance) alongside along with his grandchildren Benji (left), Georgia (center left), his daughter Hannah (center proper) and her husband Colin Ingram (proper) whereas having fun with the Barbados sunshine in December 2020

Since then, the Charity Fee has opened a proper inquiry into the Captain Tom Basis and its hyperlinks to an organization run by his daughter. 

The fee launched a statutory inquiry into the muse final 12 months over selections that ‘could have generated a major revenue’ for an organization run by the couple.

It mentioned Membership Nook Ltd had been given the ‘alternative to trademark variations of the identify “Captain Tom” with out objection from the charity, which raised cash from branded merchandise together with gin and T-shirts.

The fee beforehand turned down an software for Mrs Ingram-Moore to grow to be the muse’s chief govt on £100,000-a-year – a wage just like that run by the heads of main charities.

She was later allowed to take the publish on an interim foundation on the equal of £85,000-a-year. A brand new CEO is now in place.