Sarah Beeny has been ordered to tear down her £3million home - dubbed a 'mini Downtown Abbey' - after she built it without permission.
The homes expert has been in a six-year battle with local residents and Somerset Council over planning applications to completely overhaul the rural estate in Stoney Stoke, Somerset, which she bought in 2018.
Four years after agreeing to knock down the original 1970s farmhouse to make way for a seven-bedroom mansion, Ms Beeny, 53, went ahead with extending the building without permission instead and then applied retrospectively, along with new French doors and a first-floor balcony.
When she later applied for permission, she was refused and also lost her appeal in March, despite her design team producing a 125-page document to argue their case.
Now there is a live enforcement notice for the home to be demolished and Somerset Council are set to meet with Ms Beeny and her husband Graham Swift at the site.
