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The Independent
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Neighbours at war over Pink Floyd guitarist's garden shed
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour is embroiled in a planning dispute with neighbours over a new garden shed at his Hampstead home. Gilmour built a green shed after demolishing a summer house and is now seeking retrospective planning permission for the structure. The Hampstead Hill Gardens Residents' Association claims the shed is 'overbearing', having been constructed against the boundary fence. The residents' group has urged Camden Council to refuse the retrospective application and demand the shed's removal, arguing it sets a precedent for ignoring planning terms. Gilmour's application asserts the shed is 'well-designed', 'high-quality', and painted green to minimise its visual impact, claiming it has less overall impact than the previous arrangement.
The Independent
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Pink Floyd guitarist caught in planning row over ‘obtrusive' garden shed
Pink Floyd's guitarist is caught in a planning row with his neighbours over claims his new garden shed is 'obtrusive' and 'overbearing'. David Gilmour built a green shed in his garden in Hampstead after demolishing a summer house and later asked for retrospective planning permission. But his application has sparked calls from The Hampstead Hill Gardens Residents' Association to remove the shed on the grounds that it is obstructive. The local residents group argued in a letter published on Camden Council 's planning website that the new shed is 'significantly more visually and physically intrusive than what was originally approved or what stood there before'. The residents group said the shed has been built against the boundary fence, unlike the previous building, which they claim was built two metres away and called for it to be 'removed as soon as possible'. Residents added in the letter: 'We urge the Council to resist being misled by this retrospective rationalisation and to refuse this application. 'Allowing it would be a signal to all applicants that they can ignore the terms of their permissions.' A neighbour also responding to the retrospective application said because the shed was built up against the back garden wall, there was no opportunity for it to be blocked from view by vegetation. Another resident of Hampstead Hill Gardens said: 'The applicant's garden is long and ours is very short which makes this stand out all the more. You can see why they want the shed at the fence, but their gain is our loss.' The Hampstead Neighbourhood Forum has also asked for a gap behind the shed for wildlife to pass by and to provide space for planting. 'The proposal does not include any works affecting the fabric of the listed building,' Mr Gilmour's application said. 'The replacement of these two buildings with a single well-designed new garden shed would have less impact than the previous arrangement. 'The proposed shed of high-quality design and build and is appropriate in this location.' The application added: 'The shed is painted green to minimise its visual impact. As such, the modest size of the shed, good design and colouring mean that there would not be any harm to the setting of the listed building or that of neighbouring listed buildings. 'Nor would the proposal adversely impact the character of the conservation area.'
Daily Mail
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour in row with neighbours over his ‘obtrusive, overbearing' garden shed
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has fallen foul of neighbours over his 'obtrusive, overbearing' garden shed. The 79-year-old submitted a retrospective planning application to Camden Council after beginning work on the development in April this year. He has insisted the new shed at his home in Hampstead, north London - which is replacing a summerhouse and old shed - is of 'modest size' and 'traditional construction'. But locals fear the development is 'significantly more visually and physically intrusive than what was originally approved or what stood there before'. They have also gone so far as to accuse Mr Gilmour of being 'unneighbourly'. If constructed as planned, the new shed will be 5.95sqm larger than the summerhouse it is replacing. But submitting a lengthy objection online, a local residents association urged Camden Council to reject Mr Gilmour's application - and asked the shed be removed 'as soon as possible' to 'stop the continued harm to neighbourhood amenity'. The group argued the application is 'deliberately misleading' - claiming what Mr Gilmour has built 'no longer complies with' the existing planning permission for the site. HHGR chair, Audrey Mandela, wrote: 'Permission was granted to rebuild a shed on its original footprint, approximately two metres from the boundary. 'However, what has actually been built is abutting the boundary fence, in a substantively different and more intrusive location. 'The application should be rejected as the structure now in place is obtrusive, overbearing, and significantly more visually and physically intrusive than what was originally approved or what stood there before. 'The matter was raised with the applicant by residents of our road, who hoped to avoid the need for formal action. 'The applicant has reacted by submitting this retrospective application to pre-empt enforcement action. 'Although we understand that formal enforcement action may now be difficult due to the applicant having approached the Council pre-emptively, that does not remove the fact that the current structure is materially different from what was permitted and is too harmful to amenity given that it provides no benefit other than to the applicant. 'We urge the Council to send a strong rebuttal here to the applicant.' Other neighbours have also submitted complaints - with one saying the new shed is against the rear fence and therefore cannot be obscured with vegetation, as was the case with the old structure. Another claimed the building should be amended to allow a two-metre gap behind the shed - in order to 'provide space for planting and wildlife'. Objector Alex Shinder added: 'There was no consultation and the action is unneighbourly.' But in a statement supporting Mr Gilmour's application, agent Whiteacre Planning said: 'The shed is of a similar design to the previously approved summerhouse. '[It] is painted green to minimise its visual impact and has a cedar shingle roof which will quickly silver down. 'It is of high quality design and build and is appropriate in this location.' The letter has also rejected the notion the shed would cause any adverse impact on neighbouring amenity. It states: 'Although the roof of the shed is above the height of the boundary fence, it will not lead to any overlooking, loss of privacy, or overshadowing.' The singer and songwriter (second from right) joined Pink Floyd in 1967 before the band became one of the highest-selling and most acclaimed acts in music history in the early 1980s The letter concludes Mr Gilmour's proposal should be 'granted without delay' - as it 'complies with all relevant local and national planning policy'. It is not the first time one of the guitarist's sheds has caused controversy. In 2011, Mr Gilmour was told he must pull down a beach hut at his listed £3million seafront mansion or face prosecution. The local council told the rock musician the yellow hut he used to house his bicycles was an eyesore in the conservation area at Hove, East Sussex, and had to go. Mr Gilmour famously sold his house in London's Maida Vale to Earl Spencer – and donated the £3.6 million proceeds to Crisis, a charity for the homeless. The singer and songwriter joined Pink Floyd in 1967 before the band became one of the highest-selling and most acclaimed acts in music history in the early 1980s. Mr Gilmour has also released five solo albums. Camden Council has not yet set a date by which a decision should be made on the guitarist's new shed.
Daily Mail
06-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters opens himself to prosecution as he declares he SUPPORTS banned terror group Palestine Action
Former Pink Floyd rock star Roger Waters has declared support for Palestine Action. The musician, 81, said in an online video post on social media: 'Parliament has been corrupted by a genocidal foreign power. Stand up and be counted - it's now.' He condemned the Government's new move to label Palestine Action as a 'terrorist organisation' as a betrayal of justice and democracy. The singer and bas guitarist, posting a video online, also called out Israel as he said Sir Keir Starmer 's UK administration had been 'corrupted by agents of a genocidal foreign power'. Police yesterday arrested 29 people on suspicion of terrorism offences after protesters gathered in Parliament Square in central London holding signs supporting Palestine Action, just hours after a ban on the came into effect. Waters has been a vocal opponent of Israel's military actions in the Middle East. He has also had a public falling-put with former Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour, trading barbs online. Waters took to his personal website in June 2021 to upload a cutting statement detailing the latest drama in his ongoing feud with Gilmour, who had joined the group in 1967 - two years after its formation. The bass guitarist expressed his support for campaign group Palestine Action Waters, who quit the band in 1985 though did perform with them at the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park on July 2 2005, has been a strident critic of Israel. And he has now given public backing to the pressure group Palestine Action, saying: 'This is Independence Day, July the 5th, 2025. 'I declare my independence from the government of the UK. I support Palestine Action and I always will because that is the right thing to do. 'This is the "I am Spartacus" moment - good on everybody who is standing up everywhere and saying, "I am Spartacus". 'We will not be rolled over by this appalling Labour government in the United Kingdom. 'Palestine Action is not a terrorist organisation. They are lying. That's all I have to say.' He said of Palestine Action: 'They are non-violent. They are absolutely not terrorist in any way.' Palestine Action lost on Friday an 11-hour appeal to stop it from being banned as a terror group. Co-founder Huda Ammor failed in her bid to get the High Court to temporarily block the Government from classifying the group as a terrorist organisation. This came before a potential legal challenge to the decision to proscribe the group under the Terrorism Act 2000. The founder's representative told the court that the ban would have a 'chilling effect on free speech'. But Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr said: 'The judge was entitled to take the view that the harm identified would be the product of an individual's decision not to comply with the order.' She added that there was 'no real prospect of a successful appeal'. The proposal for the ban which had been approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords last week, will make membership and support for the direct action group a criminal offence, punishable by up to 14 years in prison. The hearing came after an estimated £7million-worth of damage was caused to two Voyager planes at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on June 20, in a protest claimed by Palestine Action. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe Palestine Action on June 23, stating that the vandalism of the two planes was 'disgraceful' and that the group had a 'long history of unacceptable criminal damage '. Pink Floyd, renowned for albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, last performed together at 2005's Live 8 charity gig. Gilmour's wife, lyricist Polly Samson, criticised Waters on social media in 2023 over his statements regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine and accused him of antisemitism, which Waters denies. Samson posted online about Waters, seemingly in response to an article he had shared concerning Israel. She had posted a tweet telling Waters he is 'antisemitic to (his) rotten core' adding that he was a 'Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac'. Waters responded by denouncing the claims as 'wildly inaccurate' and 'incendiary'. Gilmour then backed his wife's claims on social media, saying that 'every word' of her tweet denouncing Waters was 'demonstrably true'. Waters had recently given an interview to German magazine Berliner Zeitung in which he denounced claims he was an anti-Semite. Sharing the article on Twitter, the musician wrote: 'The Truth Will Set Us Free. 'Against the backdrop of the outrageous and despicable smear campaign by the Israeli lobby to denounce me as an anti-Semite which I am not, never have been and never will be.' In the piece, Waters said: 'The most important reason for supplying arms to Ukraine is surely profit for the arms industry. 'And I wonder: is Putin a bigger gangster than Joe Biden and all those in charge of American politics since World War II? I am not so sure. Putin didn't invade Vietnam or Iraq? Did he?' He also insisted Israel was engaged in 'genocide' and compared events to the way Great Britain behaved 'during our colonial period'. He said: 'We believed ourselves to be inherently superior to the indigenous people, just as the Israelis do in Palestine. Well, we weren't and neither are the Israeli Jews.'
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AI Platform Vermillio Named to TIME100 Most Influential Companies List
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