EXCLUSIVE Channel 4 celebrity interior designer Mrs Bling WINS battle to keep bikini sunroom she built without permission at her £4m Sandbanks home By James Fielding Published: 02:26 EDT, 25 September 2024 | Updated: 02:29 EDT, 25 September 2024 e-mail View comments Celebrity interior designer Celia Sawyer has won her fight to keep a luxury sunroom in the garden of her Sandbanks home. The star of Channel 4 's Four Rooms had the glass building with retractable roof built in 2020. The sunroom backs on to Poole Harbour and she even had a small sandy 'beach' built in in front of it with sunloungers.
Since then she has regularly posted pictures of herself lounging in the 21ft by 15ft sunroom in her bikini on Instagram . Last year the 58-year-old became embroiled in a planning row with nextdoor neighbour Neil Kennedy over a first-floor balcony he had built without planning permission. Celebrity interior designer Celia Sawyer (pictured) has won her battle to keep a sunroom she built in the garden of a her Sandbanks home Celia Sawyer's house (to the left), with the sunroom at the foot of her garden Sawyer (pictured) was granted the retrospective planning application with conditions that the sunroom must not be used for habitable accommodation She claimed that he would be able to look down to the bottom of her garden where she sunbathes.
Mrs Sawyer and her husband Nick lost out in the dispute when the local council granted Mr Kennedy retrospective planning permission to keep his balc.