Locals fury at family after they buy £1.2m hotel and turn quiet village into 'theme park'

By Jon King, News Reporter

An aggravated section claims the location successful Hampshire resembles a 'theme park' (Image: Solent News & Photo Agency)

A £1.2million edifice has sparked a bitter neighbourhood enactment arsenic furious locals assertion the owners person turned their village into a taxable park.

Neighbours successful the colony of Woodlands successful the New Forest National Park, Hampshire, assertion the owners person hosted large blistery tub parties, built a "viewing platform" overlooking others' gardens and adjacent landed a chopper connected a makeshift helipad.

Stephen Parker and Hannah Passmore bought the Grade II-listed gathering past twelvemonth and are applying for readying support to crook it into a household home.

An aggravated neighbour, who asked to stay anonymous, said the edifice had ever "worked with neighbours" to marque definite they weren't subjected to airy oregon sound contamination but present the location resembles a "theme park".

The location is acceptable successful 1.5 acres of onshore and was antecedently Hotel TerraVina, an award-winning boutique edifice owned by the precocious Gerard Basset of Hotel du Vin fame.

Planners past twelvemonth refused support for the gathering to go a single, residential spot due to the fact that the country needs tourer accommodation, according to the Daily Star.

At the latest assembly meeting, tensions roseate adjacent further arsenic Woodlands residents claimed the mates flouted a fig of readying laws.

Neighbours, Mr and Mrs Reynolds, objected to plans for a terrace, claiming: "Coupled with the solid balustrades and elevated presumption of the hotel, it’s much similar a viewing platform, overlooking surrounding residential properties including our own.

"It infringes connected our close to privateness and is simply a nuisance."

The mansion sits successful 1.5 acres of the New Forest National Park (Image: Getty)

Another neighbour, Dianne Smith, told the council: "There is besides recently installed multicoloured lighting which causes important airy contamination and acts arsenic a nuisance connected a regular basis."

Ms Passmore and Mr Parker quality the claims and accidental they person spent astir £800,000 connected repairs and to support the gathering arsenic a edifice was "not viable".

Mr Parker said: "When we purchased the building, it was successful disrepair. We person kind-of enactment everything into it and are providing thing for the community, arsenic well."

The parish assembly said it would urge support for alteration of usage contempt the objections.