Neighbours smash Rusedski yoga plan
HE WON the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award after scoring 30 wins with the Great Britain Davis Cup team, but former British tennis No1 Greg Rusedski has lost a battle on the home front.
I can disclose that he’s been forced to admit defeat in his three-year battle to turn his £2million country home into a yoga and wellness retreat.
The ex-Wimbledon star, 49, and his wife, Lucy, an NHS therapist, wanted to run residential workshops with bed and breakfast for up to 12 guests at their West Susssex farmhouse.
They applied for permission for a ‘change of use’ of their 18th-century Grade II-listed home and officials were set to rule the proposed development ‘in’, not ‘out’.
But the local planning authority then served up legal opinion, with lawyers called in to argue that the proposed use was as a hotel or guest house, not mixed residential.
Almost half a dozen residents and the parish council objected, saying the access to Rusedski’s home was ‘wholly inappropriate’ for commercial use as it lies on a single track shared with six other properties.