George Clooney has won a battle to build an outdoor toilet in his back garden. The Hollywood star’s plans looked like they were going down the pan after conservationists said it could damage the roots of a protected tree.
But the council has now approved the alfresco bog at his £12million, 17th century, Grade II Listed mansion in Sonning, Berkshire.
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.
But South Oxfordshire District Council’s forestry team said it compromised the roots of a protected Redwood tree. Tree officer Tim Onslow-Free explained that the proposed WC would be withing the “root
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