Why Sheeran won’t be going to the chapel to get married
HE has managed to keep his wedding plans top secret. But there’s one thing we know Ed Sheeran definitely won’t be doing on his big day – getting married in a chapel on his estate.
The singer’s dreams of marrying his girlfriend in a purpose-built flint chapel at his Suffolk home were dashed last night after planning officials rejected his application.
They ruled against the 24-seat Saxon-style chapel after deciding it would ‘conflict with the prevailing character of the landscape’ and would cause light pollution and ‘create the impression of a second village church’.
The singer-songwriter, 27, made the application to Suffolk Coastal District Council in January shortly after proposing to long-term girlfriend Cherry Seaborn, 26. However the plan soon attracted criticism and concern about the effect on wildlife.
The Suffolk Wildlife Trust said it was concerned that the building could affect a colony of endangered great crested newts believed to be sited on the land. Despite the singer’s pledge to carry out an ecological survey, it emerged yesterday that planning officials had rejected the application outright.
It is not known what plans Sheeran, who is worth around £80million, will now make for his wedding.
Meanwhile, the singer is being sued for £76million in New York for allegedly copying parts of the late Marvin Gaye’s 1973 song Let’s Get It On.
According to legal documents, Sheeran’s 2014 number one hit single Thinking Out Loud copies the ‘melody, rhythms, harmonies, drums, bass line, backing chorus, tempo, syncopation and looping’ of Gaye’s song.
The claim has been brought by a company called Structured Asset Sales, which owns part of the copyright of Gaye’s song. A spokesman for Sheeran did not respond to a request for comment yesterday.