Prince Charles favourite architect has dealt a blow to a development dubbed a Poundshop Versailles after plans to erect stables and a riding school at a £7million mansion were rejected.
Quinlan Terry CBE - who helped design Prince Charles traditionalist village, Poundbury in Dorset - is among scores of people opposing the swanky Higham Park mansion development in Suffolk.
Apoplectic conservationists fear extension works on the existing property will blight the bucolic countryside famously painted by John Constable, who lived nearby.
But they can now celebrate a small victory in their planning war against Higham Park owners, lawyer Craig Bisson and his wife Nicole.
Chingford Leisure Centre Two new mass Covid vaccination sites are opening in Waltham Forest as the local NHS prepares to start offering second doses of the jab. A meeting of the council’s health scrutiny committee last night (February 23) heard Chingford Leisure Centre and Walthamstow Library had both been selected as new sites. Chingford Leisure Centre, in New Road, Chingford, will focus on offering first doses, while existing sites and the library in High Street, Walthamstow, will start giving out second doses. Sue Boon, from Waltham Forest clinical commissioning group (CCG), told the committee: “Chingford Leisure Centre will open as a large-scale site later on in March.
Published:
2:00 PM February 6, 2021
Updated:
8:22 AM February 7, 2021
A artwork of the completed new house at Higham Park by architect Francis Terry in the planning application from 2018.
- Credit: Francis Terry/Babergh Council
A row has erupted in Constable Country after the owner of a mansion that is currently being extended applied for permission to build a new stable block.
The Dedham Vale Society has told Babergh District Council it objects to the proposal - voicing concerns there had been a series of applications for development at Higham Park, and even describing it as a Poundshop Versailles .
Solicitor Charles Bisson bought the property a few years ago. The house was then called Drumlins and was built in 2003 to a design by locally-based architect Quinlan Terry, whose work is said to be popular with the Prince of Wales.
Published:
2:00 PM February 6, 2021
Updated:
8:22 AM February 7, 2021
A artwork of the completed new house at Higham Park by architect Francis Terry in the planning application from 2018.
- Credit: Francis Terry/Babergh Council
A row has erupted in Constable Country after the owner of a mansion that is currently being extended applied for permission to build a new stable block.
The Dedham Vale Society has told Babergh District Council it objects to the proposal - voicing concerns there had been a series of applications for development at Higham Park, and even describing it as a Poundshop Versailles .
Solicitor Charles Bisson bought the property a few years ago. The house was then called Drumlins and was built in 2003 to a design by locally-based architect Quinlan Terry, whose work is said to be popular with the Prince of Wales.
Opposed - Charles Clover, the Dedham Vale Society’s chairman, is against the extension He said: “This Poundshop Versailles could not be more out of character with Constable Country. Constable consciously celebrated the workaday modesty of this part of the English countryside and depicted a harmonious society, not the gaudy excess on the part of the rich that led to revolution in France. “Pasture is an important part of the character of the area, not formal gardens.” Carol Gurney, from Higham, also objected to the application on the council’s planning portal. “I feel I must object to this latest proposal which has frankly grown beyond any reasonable proportions,” he added.