Captain Tom’s daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, did not launch an appeal to save the family’s spa (Picture: Bav Media/PA)
A luxury spa built by Captain Tom Moore’s family finally appears to being ripped down after workmen were seen arriving at the complex.
The veteran’s daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, whose company was revealed last week to have seen a massive financial drop, lost a court case in October to try and save their £200,000 spa and pool complex.
But the family failed to launch an appeal within the six week time limit, meaning the building had to be demolished by February 7.
Pictures show piles of building waste outside Ms Ingram-Moore’s £1.2 million home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire today.
Central Bedfordshire’s Council’s planning inspectorate team ruled the complex was built illegally, saying the sheers scale of spa ‘resulted in hard’ to the Grade II listen family home.
Ms Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin, had received permission from the council to build a small charity office for the Captain Tom Foundation in 2021.
But a subsequent 2022 application wanted to extend the originally approved building to contain a spa pool, which was refused by the planning authority.
The family named their new building The Captain Tom Building, which also included changing rooms, toilets and showers.
Piles of waste appear outside the complex (Picture: Spartacus/SplashNews.com)
It is the first sign the demolition of the building has begun (Picture: Bav Media)
The council declared the building was nothing like the original planning application (Picture: Bav Media)
They argued it can be used for ‘rehabilitation sessions for elderly people in the area’, but the council declared it to be ‘wholly different to the application’.
In a TalkTV interview with Piers Morgan, Ms Ingram-Moore conceded it was a mistake to lodge the planning application under the Captain Tom Foundation, saying the building was merely meant to bear his name.
She denied the family had sought to give themselves ‘a little treat’, claiming the paperwork was filed after her father’s death ‘because we wanted it as part of that legacy, and because it was a nice thing to do’.
In the interview she also admitted her family kept the £800,000 profits from three books Captain Tom had written.
Captain Tom’s daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, lodged the planning application under the Captain Tom Foundation (Picture: PA)
She denied being after a ‘little treat’ after spending £200,000 on the spa complex (Picture: PA)
She further revealed she was paid £18,000 for attending the Virgin Media O2 Captain Tom Foundation Connector Awards in 2021 — when already being paid as chief executive of the body.
The money was paid to her family firm, Maytrix Group, and she banked £16,000, donating just £2,000 to the Captain Tom Foundation.
Sir Tom raised £38.9 million for the NHS, including Gift Aid, by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday at the height of the first national Covid-19 lockdown in April 2020.
He was knighted by the late Queen during a unique open-air ceremony at Windsor Castle in the summer of that year.
He died aged 100 in February 2021.
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The £200,000 spa and pool complex was ordered to be ripped down in October.
