EXCLUSIVE Revealed: The neighbour war brewing in Adele's old backyard...
Homeowners slam property tycoon and Turkish princess's plan to turn the singer's old £5million Grade II-listed mansion into 13 separate homes By Iwan Stone Published: 23:15 BST, 8 August 2024 | Updated: 23:39 BST, 8 August 2024 e-mail View comments The owner of Adele 's old mansion has sparked a war with locals as he applies to turn it into apartments - after he claimed he couldn't sell it because the singer once claimed it was haunted. Nicholas Sutton, who has owned the Grade II listed country house since 2003, applied for permission to redevelop the main home into five houses in April. The existing garage and flat are also set to be turned into a Gothic-style cottage while seven properties will be erected by the existing tennis court in the style of a period coach house.
The Grammy Award-winning singer rented Lock House in Partridge Green, Sussex, for six months back in 2012 but famously told a US TV host during a tour that it 'gives me the creeps.' Mr Sutton blamed her comments for it not selling despite being on the market for 13 years - with multiple price reductions. But now neighbours have hit back against his development scheme - slamming it as 'wholly inappropriate' as they say it would open the door to the 'eventual ruination of our precious rural land'.
With more than a dozen objections, members of the public also complained that it would cut through their right of way, with the run-down road.