Tom Hardy wins right to keep cladding on £3.4m home despite alleged planning breach

Actor Tom Hardy wins right to keep expensive cladding on his £3.4million home despite a two-story extension having the wrong materials for five years

  • Peaky Blinders star secured permission to extend his Georgian home in 2013 
  • Source told council that he had used timber as opposed to approved clad tiling 
  • Actor’s planning agent submitted retrospective application which was approved 

Tom Hardy (pictured with wife Charlotte Riley) has won the right to keep the cladding

Actor Tom Hardy has won the right to keep high-end cladding he layered onto the extension to his £3.4million home despite allegedly breaching planning rules.

The Peaky Blinders star secured permission to build a two-storey extension at his Georgian home in 2013.

But a source tipped off the his local council saying he’d seen white-oiled Siberian larch timber finish despite the application only allowing clad tiling. 

Hardy’s planning agent was forced to submit a retrospective application to keep the extension as it is – and the proposal was accepted by the council.

The decision by a London council last month means Hardy won’t have to take down the cladding on his five-bed home Richmond.

Outlining their decision, a planner at London Borough of Richmond Council said the plans would not ‘detract from the wider street scene’.

The 41-year-old got the go-ahead to scrap a single-storey side extension and build a two-storey replacement five years ago.

The actor built this two-storey extension to the right of the main building, but was accused of flouting planning rules with his choice of cladding 

The actor built this two-storey extension to the right of the main building, but was accused of flouting planning rules with his choice of cladding 

It was alleged he had not stuck to the exact details of his granted application, by using different materials on his home, according to planning documents.

Tom Hardy (pictured at October's premiere of Venom in California) has won the right to keep his cladding despite planning rules

Tom Hardy (pictured at October’s premiere of Venom in California) has won the right to keep his cladding despite planning rules

The council also discovered a window been moved from the right to the left of the extension, documents said.

His alleged mistake apparently went unnoticed for five years, until someone informed the council, who contacted the actor, letters claim.

Council workers said he could either tear down the larch or submit an new application, planning documents said. Hardy’s agent then resubmitted the plans in October 2018 asking to keep the wood.

A representative for his agents Howard Sharp and Partners LLP said when it was built, Hardy was ‘very keen to ensure a high quality material’ was used.

They said the white oiled Siberian Larch timber was chosen because it ‘was seen by the applicants to positively respond to the overall contemporary design of the extension’.

They said the window was position to get a better internal layout and added: ‘Our clients were somewhat surprised to be notified over an alleged breach of planning control.’

London Borough of Richmond Council approved Mr Hardy’s retrospective application on December 10.

  

 

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