What happens next to Jimmy Savile’s Scottish lair after rotting home caught fire

The aboriginal of notorious paedophile Jimmy Savile’s erstwhile location is nether scrutiny yet again aft the gathering caught fire.

Police and the occurrence work raced to the building, named Allt-Na-Reigh, successful Glencoe, Scotland, connected Saturday evening.

Savile moved into the two-bedroom bungalow successful 1998, but the location has stood bare since his decease successful 2011.

He reportedly archetypal saw the location during a cycling travel successful 1944, and helium adjacent erstwhile hosted King Charles, past the Prince of Wales, arsenic a meal guest.

Police raided the spot astir a twelvemonth aft Savile’s decease to look for grounds of his crimes. It’s present thought helium abused up to 20 victims there.

Since the BBC presenter’s offending came to light, the location has been breached into and vandalised respective times.

Words similar ‘beast’ and ‘paedo’ person been scrawled connected the exterior of the spot a fig of times since then, contempt the gathering being whitewashed to effort and deter further graffiti.

Savile had near orders for the two-bedroom cottage to beryllium handed implicit to the assemblage aft his death, but this was enactment connected clasp aft Scotland Yard launched its probe into his crimes.

But aft being near to rot for 14 years, what is adjacent for Allt-Na-Reigh?

Following Savile’s death, the bungalow was enactment up for auction and purchased for £212,000 successful 2013.

It’s was listed with a usher terms of £100,000, and it’s thought the purchaser intended to determination into the spot and unrecorded there.

At the clip of the auction, it was described arsenic ‘a accepted refurbished detached cottage successful an charismatic determination wrong scenic Highland countryside’.

Proceeds from the auction were added to Savile’s property and utilized to compensate his victims.

The location was past bought by Harris Aslam, the manager of Green’s market chain, for a reported £335,000.

In November 2021, the owners submitted an exertion to demolish the gathering and physique a caller modern location successful its place.

However, this exertion drew complaints arsenic neighbours and bodies similar the National Trust for Scotland said the caller gathering would ‘distract and detract from the immersive acquisition of travelling done a scenery that is renowned and valued crossed the world’, Leeds Live reports.

The exertion was past withdrawn successful November 2023, and caller plans were submitted soon after.

The caller application, which was approved successful June 2024, sought support to demolish the existing location and physique a caller four-bedroom one-and-a-half storey house, with a two-storey rear section.

The 2 buildings volition beryllium linked by a azygous storey walkway with a level writer roof.

Allt-Na-Reigh is 1 of lone six houses on a 10-mile agelong of the A82 done Glencoe.

It erstwhile served arsenic a location connected a croft and a roadworthy workers’ cottage, and was antecedently location to Scottish inventor and climber Dr Hamish MacInnes.

Outbuildings wherever Dr MacInnes worked connected his designs, including crystal axes and stretchers utilized by upland rescue teams worldwide, volition beryllium redeveloped and named Hamish House to observe him.

A assembly study said: ‘The spot has been taxable to vandalism and graffiti directed towards a erstwhile proprietor and is present successful a precise mediocre state.

‘Aside from the negativity arising from the erstwhile owner, determination are besides precise affirmative section associations to the spot relating to the respected mountaineer who erstwhile owned the property.’

Despite readying support for Allt-Na-Reigh’s demolition and redevelopment getting the greenish airy past summer, enactment is yet to statesman astatine the site.

Planning instrumentality means the owners person 3 years to commencement operation earlier their readying support lapses and they indispensable re-apply to transportation retired the work.

A Highland Council spokesperson confirmed to Metro the expiry day for this readying support is June 25, 2027.

So, luckily for the radical who unrecorded successful and sojourn the beauteous Glencoe landscape, the graffiti-covered blot connected the scenery should soon beryllium gone, erasing the ocular grounds of disgraced Savile’s relation with the area.

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