Couple are ordered to tear down ‘unsightly’ log cabin illegally built in national park after uproar by ‘appalled’ locals

Natives, ‘Pitoresque’ on the landscape after complaining that a couple ‘ugly’ stump cabins were told to destroy the national park.

Andrew and Deborah Melbourne built a completely isolated house in the west of Loving Lane in Waterlooville, Waterlooville, a perspective on South Downs National Park.

However, after an investigation by the East Hampshire Regional Council on behalf of the South Downs National Park authority, it was found that the cabinet had violated the rules of planning.

The couple acknowledged that they would overthrow the wooden building last month.

Sara Schillemore, a member of the Assembly, said that the residents were a movement that will leave ‘excited’.

For the Cathington region, the ward council member, “ residents, this ugly structure was horrified to see that this ugly structure was built in one of the most important and valuable perspectives in Eastern Hampshire. ” He said.

‘Our valuable landscape is vital to protect our landscape’ he added.

Between September 2024 and February 2025, civil servants presented a planning violation notification, two implementation notification and a double stop notification.

The South Downs National Park (in the Picture) is the newest national park in the UK determined on 31 March 2010

Seven sisters with a series of chalk gaps by the British channel are part of the South Downs National Park

Before a Supreme Court hearing planned in June in May, Melbournes signed a legally binding contract that agrees to lift the building, buy the stump cabin and return the landscape to its original state.

Angela Glass, a member of the Parliament for Planning and Execution, said: ‘We are pleased that this legal agreement has been signed and now we expect the development to be cleaned in the next few months.

“This is the peak of the complex legal and enforcement works that last for months to reach this position by our determined civil servant team.

‘I want the inhabitants to understand that we have tools to take action against them if people violate the rules of planning.’

South Downs National Park Authority Planning Director Tim Slaney, ‘I am happy to have a decision on this planning violation, which damages this wonderful national landscape.

‘I would like to thank the East Hampshire Regional Council, which follows this case of practice with determination, that clearly demonstrates that we will not tolerate a clear planning violations.’

The agreement sets a 56 -day deadline to perform the business. Failure to comply with such a legal agreement may lead to implementation transactions that may lead to cost -effective legal wages and even custody penalties in the high court.