McCartney to knock down planning-row lodge

Paul McCartney has agreed to demolish a wooden lodge built without planning permission on his country estate by the end of June next year, his local authority said today.

Rother District Council previously rejected the ex-Beatle’s offer to knock down a detached house and two barns in return for being allowed to keep the secluded two-bedroom lodge and a lakeside pavilion at Woodlands Farm, Peasmarsh, East Sussex.