Movie director Ritchie’s cabin plans upset locals

FILM director Guy Ritchie is facing opposition over plans to build futuristic “origami” cabins at his country estate.

The Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels director has applied for planning permission to build 15 lodgings on the Ashcombe Estate in Wiltshire.

He has set up a successful clay pigeon and partridge shooting business there.

But his application for 11 guest cabins and three staff ones to house fellow shooting enthusiasts on part of the estate at Ashgrove Farm has come in for criticism – with one objector comparing it to a ‘housing estate.”

Ritchie, 54, bought the Georgian manor house and estate in the village of Tollard Royal for £9 million with

Madonna in 2001 and kept it when their marriage ended.

Now wed to model Jacqui Ainsley, the father of five’s latest scheme has disgruntled some locals with Donhead St Mary parish council urging Wiltshire Council to reject the proposal, stating its concerns as “development in the countryside, over-development and an increase in traffic”.