{"id":2347889,"date":"2026-03-27T14:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2347889"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:56:40","slug":"beckhams-rile-neighbours-with-pond-plans-at-6m-cotswolds-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/beckhams-rile-neighbours-with-pond-plans-at-6m-cotswolds-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Beckhams rile neighbours with pond plans at \u00a36m Cotswolds mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Cotswolds<\/a> man has complained about plans to install pond lighting at Sir David and Victoria Beckham<\/a>\u2019s home, comparing it to the bright lights of Miami and the Blackpool illuminations.<\/p>\n

The Beckhams plan to install the lighting at their home in Great Tew, near Chipping Norton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, neighbours are concerned about the impact it will have on bats, light pollution, and the surrounding area.<\/p>\n

James Worthington said in a comment on the couple\u2019s application: \u201cIf I am not amiss, this pond \u2018lake\u2019 is in the countryside in a rural setting with field etc, around Maplewood Barn.<\/p>\n

\u201dYet what is proposed is more akin to Miami or Florida not Great Tew. Festooned lighting hanging along a \u2018proposed bridge\u2019\u2026 spotlights, is this really Great Tew or have I mistaken this area for Blackpool?”<\/p>\n

Mr Worthington further questioned the placement of planned \u201cwall lights\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Sir David Beckham and Lady Beckham have made extensive changes to their Chipping Norton home (PA Wire)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

He added: \u201cIf the applicants want to live in suburbia, then why come to an area like Great Tew? What about the poor foraging and commuting bats?\u201d<\/p>\n

He warned that the lights could become \u201ca source of annoyance to people\u201d and \u201charmful to wildlife\u201d, potentially undermining \u201cenjoyment of the countryside or the night sky\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sir David and Lady Beckham have been contacted for comment regarding the pond lighting plans.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time that the celebrity couple have fallen foul of their neighbours over their plans for their \u00a36 million Cotswolds home.<\/p>\n

In November, they were accused of \u201cabusing\u201d the planning system<\/a> in order to make significant changes to the property.<\/p>\n

Planning documents show angry submissions made to West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) arguing that the Beckhams had \u201cdrip fed\u201d more than 30 applications, instead of submitting one master plan, in a bid to \u201cmake sure they get what they want\u201d.<\/p>\n

Since buying the three listed barns for \u00a36,150,000 in 2016, the couple have added a new driveway and gates, an additional garage outbuilding, a tennis court, a treehouse, a security hut, an extension to the garage outbuilding, and a landscaped pond and \u201cbeach\u201d.<\/p>\n

They also applied to change and extend an existing lane to make a second entrance to their Chipping Norton home, as well as to make \u201cimprovements\u201d to the kerb and gates at the entrance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Cotswolds man has complained about plans to install pond lighting at Sir David and Victoria Beckham\u2019s home, comparing it to the bright lights of Miami and the Blackpool illuminations. The Beckhams plan to install the lighting at their home in Great Tew, near Chipping Norton. However, neighbours are concerned about the impact it will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2347890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[455531,347558,394094,356384,455530,455532,391312,396758,323476],"class_list":["post-2347889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-blackpool-illuminations","tag-chipping-norton","tag-cotswolds","tag-david-and-victoria-beckham","tag-great-tew","tag-james-worthington","tag-lady-beckham","tag-sir-david","tag-the-beckhams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Beckhams-rile-neighbours-with-pond-plans-at-6m-Cotswolds-mansion.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347891,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347889\/revisions\/2347891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}