The Captain Tom Foundation has stopped taking donations as the family was ordered to tear down unauthorised spa pool extension after planning permission for the building was refused.
Bedford Today writes [5 July 2023]:
The family of Capt Sir Tom Moore is being ordered to demolish an unauthorised building containing a spa pool at their Bedfordshire property because planning permission was refused.
A newspaper report alleged they exploited the former Army veteran’s name to build the pool in a detached single storey building…
After an enforcement visit by CBC officers, a revised part retrospective planning application was submitted and subsequently refused under delegated powers… subject to an appeal to the planning inspectorate.
“The intended use was as storage and office space for the occupiers’ charitable work to support the Captain Tom Moore Foundation and for occasional meetings related to the charity,” said a planning report by CBC senior planning officer Annabel Robinson…
A petition was submitted with 12 signatures opposing the development as the building ‘lacks character..
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