George Clooney has been granted permission to build an outdoor toilet in his back garden. The proposed outbuilding, in the style of a “typical garden shed”, is described in planning documents as a simple single-storey, timber construction with a pitched roof clad in cedar shingles.
However, South Oxfordshire District Council’s forestry team said the project compromised the roots of a protected redwood tree, and it looked like the concerns could throw the work off course.
Tree officer Tim Onslow-Free, who assessed the application, explained that the proposed facilities could not be erected in the originally planned area, but suggested it could be relocated “to a more appropriate location without causing foreseeable harm to Category A
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