‘You hypocrite!’ Graeme Souness plans a £2m home – in his lend a hand backyard

When his neighbour in an distinctive millionaires’ row wished to tag contemporary homes in their backyard, football legend Graeme Souness didn’t hesitate to position the boot in and successfully challenged the plans.

However now, the ragged Liverpool and Scotland captain has been accused of hypocrisy – for doing the very identical element he so vociferously complained about.

The Sky Sports pundit has hived off a allotment of his backyard in Poole, Dorset, and won planning permission for a giant standard home complete with four en-suite bedrooms and its win cinema and gymnasium to be constructed there.

But 5 years in the past, he successfully fought plans to rupture a home on the identical aspect street and replace it with three smaller ones, complaining that the ‘shocking over-building’ would hiss a ‘unsuitable precedent’ for future buildings.

‘That is terribly hypocritical of him,’ the footballer’s next-door neighbour Paul Barrett raged.

‘He changed into very in opposition to the 2013 building, placing together a letter itemizing each and each model of the explanation why it changed into unacceptable.

‘Now he is doing precisely the identical element he opposed. It is a complete overdevelopment of a extremely tight plight. It is a totally ridiculous decision by the planners to allow it.’

Souness, sixty four, stands to dangle a clean profit on the land, as the set, overlooking Poole Harbour and shut to the ultra-distinctive Sandbanks peninsula, has been set on the marketplace for £1.25 million.

The pass comes six months after the ragged midfielder sold his six-bedroom pile in Hale, Cheshire, for £Three.5 million.

Mr Barrett, a 71-twelve months-inclined retired builders’ service provider who funds his win orchestra dedicated to the composer Mantovani as a ardour, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘I’m in a position to only affirm Graeme is being grasping or is planning to pass. I thought his application changed into ridiculous as a result of the dimensions of the set and the plight of it to his win home. The set is triangular and doesn’t lend itself to relatively an limitless property so shut to one already there.’

The ‘ultra-as a lot as date’ contemporary property would be price round £Three million when constructed, however Mr Barrett mentioned it might well ‘in actuality impinge on my privacy’.

He added: ‘I’m amazed that the council has passed it. I win spoken to a couple residents and they’ve mentioned that they couldn’t understand why he wished to tag one other home on that bit of land. However he has his planning permission and there is no longer loads we are in a position to attain now.’

Indeed, the council dominated easiest twelve months that the contemporary home would ‘no longer be intrusive or unsuitable and would be absorbed in to the residential ambiance’.

Nonetheless, they rejected the near planned for the identical aspect street in 2013, after Souness’s agent lodged a four-page complaint elevating nine facets of discipline, together with the ‘pointless prominence’ of two of the contemporary homes.

Sandbanks is one in every of essentially the most dear areas in the sphere to are living in, and its effectively-heeled residents comprise Spurs manager Harry Redknapp and Tony Pulis, for the time being responsible at Middlesbrough.

A spokesman for Mr Souness easiest evening mentioned he had no observation.