Harry Styles’ dream home plans are now one step closer to fruition after Barnet Council granted him the green-light to go ahead – but there’s one crucial condition that must be met.
Harry Styles has officially been given the go-ahead to build a new £30million mansion in Hampstead, North London. However, despite getting the go-ahead from Barnet council, permission does come with a very specific condition – the singer must make a number of environmental enhancements to cater for great tits, hedgehogs and bats.
The former One Direction singer, 31, was told he must meet a number of specifically environmental requirements in order to build his dream home which includes the installation of facilities for protected bats and other wildlife, such as bat boxes, insect hotels, hedgehog gateways and log piles.
Crucially the musical sensation, who has also turned his hand to acting in recent years, doesn’t have long to install the new facilities either, as if he misses the May start deadline, the council will require him to undertake several costly surveys all over again, reports The Sun.
As part of Harry’s plans, he intends to knock through two listed buildings to form one mega-mansion – and in doing so return them to their original design, having been previously separated. In addition, Styles intends to demolish the mid-to-late 20th century extensions and partitions as well as reinstating a top floor that had been removed in the 1950s.
According to The Daily Mail, a proposal for the project last year read: “The proposed return of the building to one single dwelling reinstates the circumstance which existed for over two hundred years and which represents the historical development and design intentions of the original house and its various phases of extension – to provide a country house for families of a high social status and wealth on the edge of Hampstead Heath.”
It’s understood that the new property will include include a master suite with four dressing rooms, a private lounge, gallery space and indoor patio.
The entire project is expected to take in excess of two years to complete and while the work will be expansive, contractors have promised to keep noise levels to a minimum so as not to disrupt any of Harry’s neighbours.
Ahead of the project’s go-ahead, neighbours of the singer were treated to three preview evenings to discuss the plans in detail and luckily for Harry, none of them raised any objections to his vision for his dream home.
The neighbourhood of Hampstead has become a huge celebrity haunt in recent years, with stars such as Lewis Capaldi, Cat Deeley, Patrick Kielty and James Corden among the famous faces living in the vicinity.
In order to meet the conditions set by Barnet Council, Harry must install a number of key wildlife enhancements which include everything from hedgehog gateways to bat boxes, along with starling nest boxes, chamber boxes for house sparrows, dead log piles and ‘bug hotels’ to name just a few.