Don’t carry on glamping! Locals’ fury at the racket as couples get intense in their tents

It offers ‘utter peace and tranquillity’ in a setting that ‘ feels like it’s a million miles from anywhere’.

But neighbours of the ‘glampsite’ deep in the New Forest say their own peace and quiet is being ruined by having to listen to couples in bell tents making the most of their break. they say they are kept awake by everything from ‘sex noises’ to drunken renditions of pop songs.

the ‘Secret Garden Glamping’ site consists of two tents pitched in the rear garden of a three-bedroom house in a residential area of Lymington. Council officials are now making enforcement enquiries following complaints from neighbours. the owner, 41-year- old Liz Feay, has responded by seeking consent for using part of the garden as ‘a glamping site for five months a year’.

three objections have been lodged so far, including one from Philip Husband, who said: ‘I had mistakenly assumed that the owners had acquired legal permissions before starting this commercial venture.’

Mel Sims, 51, who lives next door, said: ‘You can hear sex in the tents. We don’t need any more campsites in the New Forest. I don’t need one in my garden.’

In his objection to the planning application, Daniel Wells said: ‘We have had to close the window to block out the sound of a couple engaging in acts of a sexual nature, which the fabric walls of a tent clearly did not, and do not contain.

‘there was a karaoke machine there for a time and on one notable sunny afternoon whilst trying to enjoy our garden with friends, we had to instead listen to a couple blaring out Islands in the Stream.’

Another neighbour, Stephanie Glasspool, said she had been forced to listen to ‘people having sexual intercourse’ which is ‘far beyond what one would expect in a residential family neighbourhood’.

Members of the Lymington and Pennington town Council planning committee have voted against Ms Feay’s application and want New Forest District Council to reject it. the district council is expected to make a decision by March 6.

A two-night stay in one of the tents is £206 on Booking.com. Ms Feay, who describes herself as a ‘born and bred New Forest girl’, declined to comment.