Top Boy star says he’ll be pressured from house until council agrees plan
- Ashley Walters lives in a bungalow close to Herne Bay in Kent with spouse and kids
- He stated if the Canterbury City Council doesn’t approve his plans, he’ll transfer
- Walters is irritated that council accepted 160 new properties regardless of objections
Top Boy star Ashley Walters is concerned in a planning row with the council over plans to increase his house.
The actor, who performs drug kingpin Dushane within the hit Netflix drama, lives in a bungalow close to Herne Bay in Kent.
The ‘annoyed’ 41-year-old has had two functions to increase his chalet bungalow snubbed by Canterbury City Council planning officers.
He additionally needs to construct a swimming pool, cinema and fitness center in his again backyard.
Speaking at his million-pound property yesterday, Walters stated he’ll search for a brand new house along with his spouse and two kids if his plans fail to get the inexperienced gentle.
The former member of storage group So Solid Crew, who topped the charts with 21 Seconds, stated: ‘It’s extremely probably that if we won’t get it the way in which we wish to, we’ll have to maneuver out of this a part of Kent.
‘I’m an enormous fan of Kent and this a part of it.
‘Our youngsters are settled in class right here, so it is not like we’ll be going again to London. We would simply have to search out some place else regionally that fits our wants.’
Ashley Walters has had two functions to increase his chalet bungalow snubbed by Canterbury City Council planning officers
The father-of-eight talked about the planning battle in an interview with Louis Theroux which aired on BBC Two on Tuesday evening.
On the present, Theroux commented: ‘You talked about there was a planning software battle?’
To which Walters replied: ‘There was, yeah. We’ve appealed and we’re going to attempt to go to committee. And, I suppose after that, it is shifting actually.’
The BBC journalist then joked: ‘I assumed you had been going to say one thing else.’
Walters, who was jailed in 2002 for 18 months after carrying a loaded pistol that had been modified to fireside dwell ammunition, laughed and stated: ‘No, not anymore – I’m a modified man.’
The planning functions had been submitted in March and May this yr.
The first was for two-storey entrance and rear extensions. The second was for a two-storey entrance extension and a single-storey rear extension, together with a balcony to the rear.
Walters stated: ‘I believe the deliberate design of the property we wish to construct does not slot in with what they’d like for the road view.’
But he’s irritated by the truth that town council not too long ago accepted 160 new properties on farmland reverse his home, regardless of objections from neighbours.
‘It is irritating understanding that the world is endlessly altering,’ he stated.
‘There’s loads of properties being constructed up throughout the street, which goes to alter the road view for good anyway.
‘We’ve appealed twice. We’ve put in planning permission twice and been rejected. We’ve had a pre-application assembly, which did not get us anyplace.
The actor, who performs drug kingpin Dushane within the hit Netflix drama, lives in a bungalow close to Herne Bay in Kent
The actor additionally needs to construct a swimming pool, cinema and fitness center in his again backyard. Pictured: The plans for his house
‘So, we’re ready for an additional enchantment in the meanwhile, after which we simply must evaluation what we will do after that.’
The actor purchased the home in 2021 for £815,000, in accordance with Rightmove.
Despite the rejections, Walters has had ‘good communication’ with town council and has adopted ‘all the correct procedures’.
He added: ‘The swimming pool and stuff within the again just isn’t the factor that is being contested. It’s the principle property.
‘It would all be permitted by planning due to the dimensions of the buildings and the place it is located.’
The Bulletproof star says he needs to increase his house as a result of his two daughters are getting taller.
‘It’s about making it barely greater in top as a result of it is a bungalow conversion,’ he defined.
‘The prime flooring is actually within the roof, which implies you are type of ducking and because the youngsters develop they’re going to be banging heads on the ceiling.
‘So we’re simply attempting to make {that a} bit increased.’
On refusing the modifications to the home, metropolis council officers stated: ‘The ensuing dwelling can be an excessively outstanding type of improvement relating poorly to the small-scale character of the neighbours.
‘The proposed extensions relate poorly with the prevailing property and as such the general improvement would fail to have enough regard for the context and character of the positioning.’
Council communications officer Robert Davies added: ‘The most up-to-date software was refused on the grounds that its scale, type, design, look and prominence would relate poorly to the design of the prevailing constructing and would seem as an incongruous addition to the host property.
‘It would additionally hurt the visible high quality of the road scene and the character and look of the world opposite to insurance policies DBE3 and DBE6 of the Canterbury District Local Plan 2017 and Paragraph 130 of the National Planning Policy Framework.
‘The applicant has appealed this determination as is their proper and this matter will now be thought of by the unbiased Planning Inspectorate.’
He has beforehand instructed of the nice and cozy welcome he obtained when he arrived in Kent.
‘As quickly as we moved in, we had muffins being delivered to the door,’ Walters stated.
‘After a storm [they were] checking that we’re OK: ‘We seen your gate’s blown off, would you like us that will help you repair it?’
‘For us, it was like ‘what do they need?’ since you are simply so not used to that in London.’
