Harry Enfield’s £11m Notting Hill mansion plans horrify neighbours who slam ‘harmful’ & ‘damaging’ extension
HARRY Enfield is said to have massive plans for his £11million mansion – to the horror of his neighbours.
The comedian has been slammed for proposing a “harmful” and “dangerous” extension on his Notting Hill home.
MailOnline reported planning docs showed he hoped to add a second dormer window in the front roof of his home and also change the dormer window to the rear.
It said Enfield also hoped to extend his patio downstairs and add an air-conditioning unit, new railings, a five-and-a-half foot trellis screen, and metal rooflights and ‘bi-fold’ doors.
But neighbours are up in arms over the proposed changes.
Members of the Ladbroke Association, which battles to preserve “the beauty, history and character of the neighbourhood”, blasted the plans.
In a scathing summary, the group said the proposed rear dormer window was “enormous and overbearing”.
The association claimed the plan in its entirety was “harmful to the conservation area and damaging to the very charm and character that make people want to live in the area”.
It added the house “appears to have perfectly good timber-framed windows at lower ground level”.
The Sun has contacted Enfield’s reps on the matter.
Enfield and wife Lucy Lyster splashed out £6m on the five-storey family home back in 2008.
It’s said to have now sky rocketed in value and is likely worth £11m.
While the couple split after 23 years together in 2020, but Land Registry records show the pair still own the home.
Lucy is an acupuncturist who met Harry at a dinner party.
She married the comedian in 1997 and they lived together in Buckinghamshire.
The couple have three children – Archie, 20, Poppy, 18 and Nell, 15.
Enfield previously dated Lilly Allen’s mother Alison Owen.
Originally from Horsham, West Sussex, the comedian worked as a milkman before appearing as an impressionist on Spitting Image.
From 1985-1988 he rose to fame when he starred in Channel 4’s sketch show Saturday Live, playing various characters such as the builder Loadsamoney.
In 1990 he created the hugely popular BBC sketch show Harry Enfield and Chums which starred Kathy Burke and Paul Whitehouse.
The comedian has a hefty net worth since alongside his TV work.
Inside the nastiest celeb neighbour rows
By Dan Cain
MILLIONS of pounds might be able to buy a dream home – but it doesn’t guarantee a smooth ride with neighbours.
Just ask the likes of Robbie Williams, Gordon Ramsay, Billie Faiers and Holly Willoughby who are just a few of the celebs that have clashed with other homeowners and local councils over their property plans.
We dive into some of the most high-profile planning fall outs of recent years:
Robbie Williams
POP icon Robbie’s ownership of a huge south west London pad hasn’t been without its headaches.
Most recently he’s felt the ire of a neighbour objecting to a proposal to trim some of the property’s trees which are said to be blocking light into the building.
Robbie, 49, wants to prune 14 plants but has been branded a “vandal” because of it.
A neighbour wrote to planners: “Hello there, I think these trees should be left as chopping down healthy trees is an act of environmental vandalism.
“Shame on anyone wanting to destroy our leafy friends. They give us life – we should respect theirs.”
Previously Robbie clashed with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy over plans to renovate his £17.5million Grade II listed mansion.
The rocker argued unsuccessfully that vibrations could damage ancient paintings and frescoes in his home, where he has lived for over 50 years.
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon’s idyllic Cornish bolt hole has been soured in recent years due to a backlash from locals during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gordon’s issues with Cornwall started in 2020 when he, wife Tana and their five kids upped sticks from London to live in their £4million holiday home.
They made the 246 mile trip when people could be fined for any non-essential travel and were urged not to stay in their second homes.
He was called “disgusting” and accused of “flouting government rules” by one local, despite the star insisting he had done nothing wrong at the time.
They raged: “Don’t you realise that by doing that you’ve possibly brought the virus with you and because Cornwall is not your main residence, if you and your family get sick you will place yet more strain on an already fragile infrastructure.
“I’m reporting you to the police. What you’ve done is against the law and I hope they force you back to London.”
The furore led Gordon to say he hates the Cornish people.
Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan
Mark and Michelle are happily living inside their £3.5million dream Essex home but the process wasn’t without its hiccups.
They had to amend plans along the way and, to their credit, dealt with all the setbacks in the right manner.
Their parish council previously objected to the size of the project and the height of proposed security gates and walls.
Planning documents said: “This new amended application further increases the size of the dwelling, and the Parish Council feels that these proposed changes increase the size of the dwelling over the original dwelling size to such a degree that it would, for reasons of its bulk and size, now represent an unacceptable increase and as such have a detrimental impact on the green belt.”
However, it wasn’t long before the proposal was deemed suitable and work quickly commenced.
There was more strife when plans to bolster security at the property, turning it into a ‘fortress’, were rejected due to the proposed 2.1metre boundary wall being deemed out of keeping with the area.