Furious neighbours person condemned plans by Paul O'Grady's widower to crook an abandoned hut astatine the precocious tv star's state mansion into a caller house.
Andre Portasio, 43, has 'perturbed' locals with his plan to crook an disused information outpost into a household home.
Mr Portasio, a dancer occassionally utilized the hut to for ballet, but wants to crook it into a villa- 3 times bigger than the gathering now.
But helium is locked successful a bitter enactment with neighbours who person blasted the thought calling it readying support by the 'back door'.
Andre Portasio (right) submitted plans for the building's alteration of usage aft helium was bequeathed the sprawling eastbound Kent farmstead by TV prima Paul, who died past year
The information hut astatine Paul O'Grady's erstwhile location - Andre present wants to person it into a location 3 times the size
Planning documents lodged with Ashford Council, Kent amusement helium wants to alteration the 360sq ft lodge into a two-bedroom location with a abstracted garage.
The caller location volition beryllium overlaid connected the footprint of the existing plot, with added wings either broadside to make a surviving country and chamber with en-suite.
But 1 neighbour Sheila Garrard wrote to the assembly to kick the plans would intrude connected her ain 'listed' home.
While different said helium suspected the spot would beryllium developed and sold on.
Ms Garrard complained: 'I americium perturbed belatedly to find that determination is an exertion successful respect of this straight neighbouring property, the bound of which is conscionable yards from my ain (listed) property, for which I person not been made a consultee.
'I should adhd that the adjacent extortion of the groundskeeper's workshop, which is the taxable of this application, is disposable from wrong my house.'
Fellow section Peter Ashenden argued: 'The contiguous exertion is successful nonstop contravention of the archetypal readying conditions and successful my presumption amounts to an effort to summation readying support for a important residential improvement by the backmost door, and 1 which volition nary uncertainty beryllium sold connected separately to the main building.'
'I should similar to entity to this exertion for alteration of usage to "residential" connected the grounds that the archetypal support related to a creation studio, surely with nary imaginable of residential occupation.'
Ballet dancer Mr Portasio inherited the spot connected Paul's decease and, according to documents, is present 'in the process of re-rationalising the estate'
Mr Portasio present thinks the lodge adjacent to the entranceway of the property's driveway could beryllium repurposed and asked surveyors to constitute a study listing its imaginable uses
But it is not lone neighbours who person raised their concerns with the plans.
Enivronmentalists are besides disquieted the improvement could beryllium retired of sync with the section area.
Katie Miller, Planning Manager of the Kent Downs National Landscape Unit, said: 'The existing building, with its boxy proportions, ample areas of glazing and level extortion is of nary peculiar architectural merit and fails to lend to the section distinctiveness of the Kent Downs vernacular.'
Mr Portasio was bequethed the spot successful Ashford, Kent successful March 2023, aft Paul's decease aged 67.
For The Love Of Dogs presenter Paul bought the workplace connected a mildly sloping elevation 8 miles extracurricular of Ashford successful August 1999 for £650,000.
It has six bedrooms, a swimming excavation and 52 acres of onshore arsenic good arsenic a further 4 acres of woodland.
Mr Portasio, who met Paul successful 2006 and joined him 11 years later, has antecedently explained the traumatic time erstwhile his hubby passed away.
'I walked to the room to commencement putting immoderate nutrient on, and I started taking things retired of the fridge. And each of a sudden, I could spot him lying connected the floor,' helium said.
'I conscionable didn't cognize what to deliberation astatine first. He had a chopped connected his forehead, and I thought helium was astir apt conscionable unconscious. I called the ambulance and they said the champion accidental to support him live was to bash CPR.'
Mr Portasio began CPR which was aboriginal taken implicit by an ambulance crew, to nary avail.
Paul had suffered a cardiac arrhythmia.
The prima near immense sums of wealth to foundation successful his will, including £500,000 to Battersea Dogs Home.
He besides made definite his ain dogs were good cared for, leaving £125,000 beryllium spent connected the upkeep of his 5 pets, who are present owned by his cause Joan Marshrons.
Paul was buried successful St Rumwold's Church successful adjacent Bonnington connected April 20, 2023.
Ashford Borough Council is presently considering the application.
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