Captain Tom’s family lose spa demolition appeal

The family of Captain Sir Tom Moore have lost a planning application appeal against the demolition of an unauthorised home spa in their garden. 

Moore’s daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband had appealed against the order by Central Bedfordshire Council. 

They used the Captain Tom Foundation name on the first plan before a revised application was turned down. 

The family have three months to comply with an existing demotion order. 

In a letter announcing the decision, Inspector Diane Fleming said the “scale and massing” of the partially built building had “resulted in harm” to The Old Rectory, the family home and a Grade II listed building in Marston Moretaine.