A row has erupted after a businessman built a 'gaudy' Indian gastro pub next door to the childhood home of William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway without planning permission.
A row has erupted after a businessman built a 'gaudy' Indian gastro pub next door to the childhood home of William Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway without planning permission.
They strongly opposed a retrospective planning application submitted to Stratford-upon-Avon District Council in August, saying the pub ‘does not respect the character of the conservation area’ and was ‘yet another attempt’ by Mr Singh, who has applied multiple times to change buildings in the hotel grounds, to ‘overdevelop’ the site.
‘It's been very upsetting to watch the destruction of nature with all this building debris appearing in the brook,’ one said. ‘Quite simply the building should be torn down. ‘During the summer we could hear the football blaring out across the woodland from the pub. Mr Singh continues to ignore the fact that it's a conservation area.
‘I just hope the council throw the book at him otherwise other landowners may feel emboldened to ride rough shod over the planning rules too.’ The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, who manage the cottage, complained the pub building, which includes an outdoor drinking terrace, had encroached over their boundary
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