David and Victoria Beckham have frustrated locals with proposals including tree planting at their lavish Cotswolds residence. The pair have lodged applications with the local authority for 79 trees alongside a wildflower meadow.
The planting scheme follows approval of an application to enhance an agricultural track. The track will be transformed into a permanent driveway serving as the main entrance to the £6m estate.
Now Lady Victoria and Sir David, who is assisting in developing a show garden for the King’s Foundation at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, have put forward a landscape and management strategy. This encompasses planting trees along one entire side of the estate, where the driveway will run.
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The woodland will comprise 12 European beech, 19 English oak, 15 small-leaved lime, eight field maple, seven Scots pine, five common hazel, five sycamore maple, four holly and four English yew trees.
The woodland aims to enhance the couple’s privacy following burglary attempts targeting them in recent years.
The Beckhams now maintain round-the-clock security, as both their London and Cotswolds properties have experienced attempted break-ins.
The estate, which football icon Sir David, 50, and pop star-turned fashion designer Lady Victoria, 51, purchased for £6.15m in 2016, will now be largely concealed from curious onlookers.
However, residents have voiced displeasure with the developments in their neighbourhood.
Neighbour James Worthington submitted a letter of objection, photographs and 43 pages of supporting documents.
He warned that if the council approved the plan, the countryside home would transform into a fortress, reports the Mirror.
Regarding the work and planting already carried out, he stated: “This current application is just a joke.
“Why submit an application when you have already laid the road, installed gates, laid an electricity supply to the gate, planted trees, installed post and rail fencing along both sides of this track?”
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