Martin Clunes in war with ‘cynical & dishonest’ traveller neighbours who pitched static caravan 300 yards from home

ACTOR Martin Clunes has go embroiled successful a bitter feud with neighbours aft they pitched a static caravan conscionable yards from his home.

The Men Behaving Badly star, 62, allegedly slammed the traveller residents for being arsenic helium continues his combat to person the tract cleared.

The caravan sits conscionable 300ft from the actor's 130-acre Dorset workplace and is inhabited by self-styled 'new property travellers' Theo Langton and Ruth McGill.

The couple's plans person been recommended for support by Beaminster municipality council.

Clunes has since sent the section readying authorization a furious email wherever helium labelled Theo and Ruth's plans arsenic "cynical and dishonest" by describing their home arsenic "mobile", according to MailOnline.

He added that the crippled would intrude connected an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Langton and McGill person lived connected a woodland crippled for conscionable implicit 2 decades without moving h2o and energy - and person received licenses to stay connected the site.

During that time, they person reportedly integrated with the section assemblage and are fashionable with locals.

Two years ago, they applied for imperishable support to stay determination by having the crippled recognised arsenic a travellers' tract - comprising abstraction for their 45ft agelong 'mobile' location arsenic good arsenic added abstraction for visiting caravans.

Government argumentation states that a travellers' tract should person capable country for mobile homes, caravans and inferior buildings specified arsenic parking.

According to its archetypal definition, mobile homes should beryllium capable to beryllium divided successful 2 and enactment connected the backmost of a 40ft trailer if needed.

"To trust connected the findings arsenic grounds that the operation is simply a mobile location is an effort to distort the explanation of the guidelines," Clunes fumed.

"It is my content that this gathering lacks immoderate quality to beryllium mobile and was not constructed with immoderate volition of mobility and to picture it arsenic a mobile location is cynical and dishonest.

"The usage connected a impermanent oregon imperishable ground remains inappropriate."

The plans person divided sentiment amongst locals.

"I can't ideate however it indispensable consciousness for them to person their location truthful precariously balanced owed to the sentiment of a neighbour," section Emma Gale said.

Resident Betty Billington doubled down: "The main objector (Mr Clunes) bought his spot knowing that this household already occupied the onshore for residential use.

"The mates are classed arsenic Travellers for readying purposes arsenic per authorities ruling, they regularly spell travelling for work, arsenic they person ever done for galore years.

"I tin spot nary crushed wherefore they should not beryllium capable to transportation connected surviving connected the onshore which is causing NO occupation to anyone."

Others person sided with the celebrated actor.

"Many radical successful Dorset would emotion to make their ain onshore to accommodate their ain families but travel up against strict readying support particularly successful AONBs," Dinah Clarke, who lives astatine adjacent Meerhay Manor, said.

"Mr Langton has questionable New Age Traveller presumption and should truthful beryllium taxable to the aforesaid readying rules arsenic anyone other seeking to make their ain land."

Dorset Council has not yet acceptable a day for erstwhile members volition conscionable to ballot connected the readying application.

The Sun has reached retired to Dorset Council and Martin Clunes' cause for comment.