{"id":751164,"date":"2026-08-27T07:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751164\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:28:08","slug":"david-bowie-childhood-home-plans-opposed-by-neighbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751164\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bowie childhood home plans opposed by neighbours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ruth Dickie lives next door at number 6. The 14 sq m visitor centre, at 3m tall, would stand against her garden fence and rise almost a metre above it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she had felt &#8220;sick&#8221; since the plans were announced, and was considering leaving the house she shared with her husband Jim, who died two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He had Parkinson&#8217;s and dementia so this was a safe place for him. The garden here was our solace. I pottered while he sat,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">HOLT said the centre was in line with other garden buildings nearby and designed &#8220;explicitly to reduce our impact on nearby properties&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;By ensuring that visitors are kept on site, briefed within an enclosed building, and spend a limited amount of time within the garden, we will all act to reduce both visual and auditory impact for our neighbours.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruth Dickie lives next door at number 6. The 14 sq m visitor centre, at 3m tall, would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}