Captain Tom's family will have to tear down their luxury spa pool within days after their latest court appeal was tossed out.Hannah Ingram-Moore - the late veteran's daughter - and her husband Colin have been ordered to demolish the block after it was erected without proper planning permission in the garden of their Bedfordshire mansion.
The family's finished building breached the authorised blueprint and a retrospective planning request was denied - despite the original plan for an outbuilding being given the green light.A hearing in October - which heard how the Captain Tom Foundation set up in the fundraiser's name was to fold over scandal surrounding finances - rejected their appeal after the couple challenged the decision.
In November, Inspector Diane Fleming ruled that the spa block must be demolished within three months, by February 7.The family had six weeks in which the appeal decision could be challenged in the High Court.
The Planning Inspectorate said on Wednesday that the deadline to challenge the appeal decision in the High Court has now passed and that no claim has been issued.
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