Dragons’ Den star Rachel Elnaugh’s anti-vaxxer sanctuary is demolished

Peak District officers have demolished a Dragon’s Den star’s £1m anti-vaxxer sanctuary in a victory for villagers combating the plans.

Rachel Elnaugh, 59, who starred in season two of the BBC actuality present, raised the close to seven-figure sum to purchase a 70-acre plot in Cressbrook Dale, Derbyshire, which she meant to make use of for ‘shamanic rituals’ and as a ‘protected haven away from the specter of humanity’.

She and a bunch known as Phoenix Rose started creating the location by erecting a teepee and constructing a parking lot.

But the group didn’t have the required planning permission from the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) and have been informed to tear the constructions down and return the land to its former state.

Having did not reverse the modifications themselves within the subsequent weeks, park officers have now dismantled the location and despatched the £35,000 invoice to Phoenix Rose.

Rachel Elnaugh, 59, who starred in season two of the BBC actuality present, raised the close to seven-figure sum to purchase a 70-acre plot in Cressbrook Dale, Derbyshire, which she meant to make use of for ‘shamanic rituals’ and as a ‘protected haven away from the specter of humanity’

She and a bunch known as Phoenix Rose started creating the location by erecting a teepee and constructing a parking lot. But the group didn’t have the required planning permission from the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) and have been informed to tear the constructions down and return the land to its former state

Lynn Crowe, John Butler and Jenny Caven from the Save Cressbrook Dale group have celebrated the newest growth within the saga

Locals against the scheme have celebrated the transfer, however the combat shouldn’t be over as Ms Elnaugh, who described the property as ‘an unbelievable vagina of land’, desires to clear one other space of land to construct a ‘chapel’.

John Butler, 72, a Cressbrook resident and member of the Save Cressbrook Dale group, informed the Times that the world is one essentially the most ‘vanishingly uncommon items of wilderness within the area and is unsuitable for cultivation or habitation’.

‘All we ask is that they respect the protections on this particular a part of the Peak District and cling to the legislation,’ he mentioned.

‘These protections have been fought for by peculiar folks and since these folks fought for them we now have National Parks that are for everybody.’ 

Ms Elnaugh confronted extreme criticism throughout the Covid pandemic for her anti-vax opinions.

The businesswoman, who lives in close by Bakewell, claimed the virus was a ‘nice bio-weapon’ launched by a ‘darkish cabal’ in Switzerland.

She additionally mentioned that England’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, who turned a widely known determine throughout the pandemic, ought to ‘cling’ for vaccinating youngsters. 

Ms Elnaugh made her fortune via her reward firm Red Letter Days, which was offered in August 2005 to fellow Dragons Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis, who saved it from chapter.

It was later offered to a competitor, SmartBox, in 2017. 

The entrepreneur left the favored actuality TV present after her reward firm Red Letter Days went into administration in 2005

Having did not reverse the modifications themselves within the subsequent weeks, park officers have now dismantled the location and despatched the £35,000 invoice to Phoenix Rose (pictured, Cressbrook Dale) 

The enforcement discover, seen by MailOnline, mentioned {that a} ‘parking space’, ‘path’ and a ‘Tipi’ had been put in with out planning permission 

Responding to a Tweet by Good Morning Britain, which requested viewers whether or not they have been blissful for his or her youngsters to be vaccinated, the businesswoman, who’s the founding father of the expertise supplier Red Letter Days, wrote: ‘Child abuse. Whitty will cling for this.’

Writing in her memoir following the collapse of her enterprise, she mentioned those that had been ‘abusive’ in direction of her had come to a ‘sticky finish’.

She additionally blamed an ‘military of faceless, jealous folks’ for the reward enterprise going into administration. 

On her web site, she describes herself as a ‘creator, communicator and changemaker’.  

In 2012 she turned the enterprise supervisor for the choice medication practitioner and TV character Stephen Russell, often called The Barefoot Doctor. 

Russell, who died in 2020, stopped practising after he admitted having had intercourse with former sufferers. 

Ms Elnaugh has been approached for remark.