He’s a Hollywood hotshot mixing with the biggest stars – but James Corden is not above rowing with his council over his bins.
Camden Council in north London has ordered Corden, 47, to rip up paving slabs laid illegally to contain bins in the front garden of his £11.5million mansion.
Neighbours and preservation groups say the slabs, placed without planning permission, are ‘unsightly’, ‘reduce biodiversity’ and are ‘detrimental to the character of the conservation area’.
But the Gavin & Stacey actor is defying the threat of an enforcement notice and refusing to destroy his ‘minor landscaping’.
He has sent a 26-page letter to the council arguing that ‘there is no discernible change in the appearance of this section of the front garden of the property’.
He adds there is no evidence of harm to the character of the home or the conservation area.
And he calls the council’s position ‘illogical’, saying it didn’t properly analyse or explain the harm it claims exists – and its reasoning contradicts itself.
West London-born Corden, who hosted The Late Late Show in the US for eight years until 2023, moved to the Camden area last year with wife Julia Carey and their three children.
James Corden and his wife Julia Carey arriving for the National Theatre Next Chapter Gala, at the National Theatre on the Southbank, central London, on March 5, 2026
Pictured: Paving works carried out at James Corden’s house in Belsize Park, Hampstead
His paving slabs are not the only stones causing him grief.
Campaigners in Jersey are demanding the return of a 5,000-year-old stone circle from his Oxfordshire estate.
The druid temple was given to the estate’s then owner in 1788 and the Channel island wants its stones back.
Corden has said he would be happy to oblige – but added that UK heritage chiefs didn’t want the stones moved.