Overview

• Somerset Council has a live enforcement notice requiring demolition of the unauthorised building at Beeny’s Stoney Stoke estate.
• The council says a site visit is due later this month or early October, with Beeny and husband Graham Swift expected to attend.
• Beeny extended and altered a 1970s farmhouse without permission, then applied retrospectively, was refused, and lost her appeal in March.
• Earlier consent for a new house required demolition of the original farmhouse and outbuildings, a condition the council says was not met.
• Local objections have highlighted planning breaches and reported bat presence at the farmhouse, and the redevelopment has featured on Channel 4.