Captain Tom’s daughter reduced to using public spas after losing planning appeal
Captain Sir Tom Moore’s family have lost a planning application appeal against the demolition of an unauthorised home spa in their garden.
Hannah Ingram-Moore, and her husband had appealed against a demolition order by Central Bedfordshire Council.
They had applied in 2021 for permission to build it in the grounds of their home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.
The L-shaped building had been given the green light but the planning authority refused a retrospective application in 2022 for a larger C-shaped building containing the spa.
This structure was referred to as ‘The Captain Tom Building’ and described as ‘a new building for use by the occupiers’.
They then created a poolhouse with changing rooms, toilets and showers, alongside their £1.2million home which ‘evolved’ to include the spa pool.
The Planning Inspectorate dismissed an appeal on this after a hearing last month.
Inspector Diane Fleming said the ‘scale and massing’ of the building had ‘resulted in harm’ to The Old Rectory – the Grade II listed family home.
Richard Proctor, Planning Enforcement Team Leader, said: ‘The Council’s position is that the building is wholly different to the application.’
In a previous interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV, the family confessed to taking money from the NHS fund-raising veteran – from the sale of his books.
His daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore said they kept £800,000 from three books he had written.
She told TalkTV’s Piers Morgan that Sir Tom wanted them to keep the book profits.
She said: ‘These were my father’s books, and it was honestly such a joy for him to write them, but they were his books.
‘He had an agent and they worked on that deal, and his wishes were that that money would sit in Club Nook.’
It was also revealed she received £70,000 in salary and expenses claims, according to the charity’s latest accounts.
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