CHELSEA striker Armando Broja's plans to build a dream £4million home have been booted out. The Albanian international , 22, wants to knock down his existing four-bedroom home to make way for a luxury new build with a swimming pool, spa and cinema. But planners gave the proposed development the red card saying it was too big - despite no objections from neighbours.
Broja, now on loan to Everton , snapped up the £1.8million property on a private Surrey estate near Chelsea's Cobham training ground in December. He was initially given the go-ahead by Elmbridge Borough Council to splash out on a 36 x 14ft swimming pool and gym extension earlier this year.
But Broja then applied to knock down the house and build a new five-bed three times the length of the original and increasing from 36 to 93ft. Planning officer Joseph Kelly ruled: "As a result of the significant increase in length and height, it is considered that the bulk, scale and massing of the proposed would far exceed that of the existing house it would replace and that of neighbouring properties. "The proposed replacement dwelling would fill most of the length of the plot which is not in keeping with the urban grain and pattern of buildings in the streetscape that are of low density in the local area.
"Although the application site is a spacious plot, the proposed replacement house would be disproportionate, uncharacteristic and incongruous in its size and appearance compared with the existing house." But he added: "The .