Ex- lotto winners mansion to get a pool
The new owners of the Troon mansion of lottery millionaires Colin and Christine Weir want to build a giant pool complex.
Andy Kerr plans the pool house in the grounds of stately Frognal in Troon.
The Weirs were the UK’s biggest lottery winners - with £ 161 million - when they bought the Southwoods mansion in 2014.
But all it was lacking was a place to swim.
Mr and Mrs Kerr want to rectify that and has lodged plans with South Ayrshire Council for a 12 metre by seven metre pool.
It will be housed in a near 20 metre garden room including hot tub, sauna and bar.
They are going to chop down a total of eight trees in the 16- acre grounds to make way for the pool and a separate toilet block.
That has a total of six loos for gardening and maintenance staff.
But the couple pledge to plant 16 trees in different areas in some compensation for losing mature beech, silver birch, cherry and a Scots Pine.
Ecologist Craig Macdonald, of CSM Ecology, produced a 61- page report on the development.
He said: “The proposed constructions of a toilet block and store room in the front garden and the indoor swimming pool in the rear garden are not expected to cause significant impacts to any populations of protected plants, habits, birds or mammal species.
“There is a minor potential for impacts to nesting birds, a minor potential risk of disturbing bat foraging or commuting routes and a minor potential risk of a small number of terrestrial mammal species becoming trapped during construction phases.”
The Weirs took a £ 1.2million hit on the sale of their mansion last year.
She and Colin bought it for £ 3.5m from hotel tycoon Bill Costley, and sold it to the Kerrs for £ 2.3m.
It had been on the market for just a fortnight.
The seven- bed blonde sandstone mansion features a minstrel’s gallery with a 36,000 piece crystal chandelier and a billiards room with inglenook fireplace
South Ayrshire Council will make their decision later.