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Captain Tom spa pool hauled out by crane throughout demolition – new photos | UK | Information


A spa pool on the house of Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter has been hauled out by a crane as a part of ongoing demolition works.

The bathtub was hooked as much as chains and hoisted up by way of the open roof of the block, which was taken off by workmen earlier within the week.

Planning inspector Diane Fleming dominated that the spa block have to be destroyed by February 7 ater Central Bedfordshire Council refused a restrospective software for a C-shaped Captain Tom Basis Constructing containing a spa pool.

The native authority had solely given permission for an L-shaped constructing on the property in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, and issued an enforcement discover that was upheld by Ms Fleming – regardless of Hannah Ingram-Moore’s declare that the spa pool had ”the chance to supply rehabilitation classes for aged individuals within the space”.

The elimination by a big yellow crane got here precisely three years after Captain Sir Tom’s demise on February 2, 2021.

The inspiration is the topic of an investigation by the Charity Fee amid issues about its administration and independence from Captain Sir Tom’s household.

The charity watchdog opened a case shortly after the 100-year-old died. It launched its inquiry in June 2022.

Scott Stemp, representing Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband Colin, mentioned at a planning attraction listening to over the spa pool that the inspiration ”is to be closed down following an investigation by the Charity Fee”.

Captain Sir Tom raised £38.9million for the NHS, together with present assist, by strolling 100 laps of his backyard earlier than his a centesimal birthday on the top of the primary nationwide Covid-19 lockdown in April 2020.

He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II throughout a novel open-air ceremony at Windsor Citadel in the summertime of that yr.

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