James Bond star Daniel Craig wins battle over GATE at £6m home after neighbour complaints about ‘strangers on property’

DANIEL Craig and Rachel Weisz person WON a conflict with conservationists to physique a caller entranceway astatine their historical £5million home.

The James Bond prima and his Oscar-winning histrion woman privation to enactment up a obstruction to assistance support retired intruders astatine their 18th Century terraced pad successful North London.

But alternatively of his accustomed Aston Martin, Craig conscionable wants a unafraid parking country for his electrical car, installing a tiny gross conscionable implicit 6ft high.

Neighbours backed the mates successful their bid for a "sense of enclosure" astatine their Grade II listed location but conservationists objected to the projected scheme.

They said: "We enactment that this is simply a listed gathering and that the vestiges of the beforehand bound walls, wherever they survive, tin beryllium seen to person been portion of the wide plan of the crescent.

"We regret, therefore, that this accidental has not been taken to marque immoderate effort to reconstruct the signifier of the beforehand bound successful this application.

"The projected railings/gate are not due to the historical signifier of the beforehand boundary. It is besides regrettable that nary effort has been made to soften the hard paving either."

But successful a missive of support, a neighbour wrote: "We besides person an exposed beforehand gait with small privateness and concerns astir security.

"We often person random radical wandering into the yard, sometimes sitting connected our stairs if we are not astatine home."

Craig, 56, and Weisz, 54, bought their four-storey location for £3.2million, successful 2008, but it is present believed to beryllium worthy £5million.

Previous plans to instal conveyance gates and demolish a beforehand bound partition were thrown retired by officials astatine their section assembly successful 2003, calling the gates an "incongruous feature" that would beryllium retired of keeping with the conservation country and detract from the peculiar architectural involvement of the listed building.

But each these years later, officials astatine the assembly person present fixed Craig the go-ahead for a acceptable of conveyance and pedestrian gates aft determination were nary objections from neighbours.

They said: "It is considered that the projected works would not origin a detrimental interaction upon the quality and quality of the big spot and would sphere the peculiar quality of the conservation area."

Although the neighbours person supported Daniel and Rachel's exertion for a gate, trees and a conservatory person been much of a sticking point.

In 2017, celebrated mates won a conflict to support a 65ft London level histrion successful their plot pursuing complaints from locals who said its roots were causing harm to their properties.

Neighbours applied to chop down the tree, reasoning it was causing subsidence to their homes.

The histrion was saved though aft Daniel and Rachel offered to chopped the it back.

In November 2022, the mates had to use to Camden Council again to chopped the aforesaid histrion backmost by different 13ft.

They besides asked to trim different London level and a pear histrion that was covered successful ivy.

The mates had to question support to transportation retired the changes due to the fact that the trees are protected by a Tree Preservation Order in a designated conservation area.

In 2023, Daniel and Rachel besides locked horns with neighbours implicit plans to sound down a 20th period conservatory.

They wanted to divided up the crushed floor, treble reception country into two, determination the room and regenerate the archetypal floor.

However, fuming locals blasted the determination and claimed they would not acceptable successful with the 1840 terraced location style.

Other celebrated residents who unrecorded adjacent to Daniel and Rachel see actresses Jenna Coleman and Daisy Ridley, singers Craig David and comedian Julian Clary.