Pippa Middleton and her husband have been ordered to tear up an unauthorised car park they built on their Berkshire estate, in a victory for local villagers.
The Princess of Wales‘s sister and her husband James Matthews did not have planning permission when they created the 4,000sq ft hard standing on a meadow at Kintbury last year.
Locals complained to the council, accusing the couple of countryside ‘urbanisation’ after they built the ‘unsightly’ car park on land next to the River Kennet.
Now West Berkshire council has ordered the couple to remove it, maintaining that it was out of keeping with the ‘beauty,
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