CAPTAIN Tom's prized possessions have been cleared out as his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore is forced to demolish a controversial spa complex.
Hannah looked dejected as her £200,000 luxury spa complex was emptied ahead of being torn down.
Workmen were pictured arriving to begin the demolition job with the complex needing to be cleared out ahead of February 7.
Items including a BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award and Guinness Book of Records certificate were seen being packed up and towed away in a green garden trolley.
Various paintings and a model aircraft were among other items spotted.
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Some of the items were loaded onto a trolley by workers at the site and taken away.
Other snaps showed building waste piling up outside Hannah's £1.2million Bedfordshire mansion.
Flattened boxes, a running machine and black bin bags were heaped next to an exterior wall.
Hannah and husband Colin had battled to overturn a council decision to tear down the complex in a long-running saga.
They had six weeks to try to save the "unauthorised" building after losing a court case in October - but failed to launch an appeal.
The Planning Inspectorate previously ruled the building will have to be come down in three months as it was built illegally at their £1.2million mansion.
RESTORE THE LAND
Inspector Diane Fleming said the "scale and massing" of the building had "resulted in harm" to The Old Rectory - the Grade II listed family home in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire.
As well as tearing the spa down, the family will need to remove all building materials and restore the land to its "former condition".
Hannah and her husband had initially received permission from Central Bedfordshire Council to build a small charity office for the Captain Tom Foundation.
Plans for the L-shaped building at the seven-bed mansion in Marston Moretaine were given the green light in 2021.
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Hannah and husband Colin had applied in their own names for planning — but used the foundation’s name in the design and access and heritage statement.
The statement claimed the building was to be used partly "in connection with The Captain Tom Foundation and its charitable objectives".
A subsequent 2022 retrospective application - which is sought after something has already been built - to extend the originally approved building to form a C-shape, containing a spa pool, was refused by the planning authority.
The structure was referred to as The Captain Tom Building and described as "a new building for use by the occupiers", aka Hannah and Colin.
The married couple then created a poolhouse with changing rooms, toilets and showers to sit alongside their £1.2million home.
'WHOLLY DIFFERENT'
The court heard this later "evolved" to include the spa pool.
Chartered surveyor James Paynter, speaking for the family, suggested it could be used for "rehabilitation sessions for elderly people in the area".
But Richard Proctor, Planning Enforcement Team Leader, said: “The Council’s position is that the building is wholly different to the application.”
The court was also told the Foundation will be shut down when a probe by the Charity Commission is over.
