GEORGE Michael’s former North London home is due a date with the wrecking ball - before it gets a Grand Designs-style redevelopment.
The Fastlove singer, who died on Christmas Day 2016 aged just 53, bought the Hampstead property in 1987 and lived in it for years.
After moving out to spend time between his Highgate mansion and a country estate in Goring, Berkshire, the pad fell into disrepair.
In 2002, burglars ransacked the home while George was away.
They pocketed all of his expensive jewellery, paintings and clothes.
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The heartless thugs even stole family heirlooms bequeathed to George by his mum, who died of cancer in 1997.
After emptying the home, they tore off in his Aston Martin DB7.
After he died, the Wham! legend, real name Georgios Panayiotou, left his £98 million fortune to sisters Yioda and Melanie.
The latter sadly passed away three years after George on Christmas Day 2019, leaving Yioda, 62, at the helm of the estate.
She has now been given the green light by Camden Council after architects BB Partnership vowed to make the crumbling home "habitable".
This will include ripping out and installing a new roof which will have solar panels.
They will also change an adjoining garage into living quarters, add new doors and windows and install decking all round the back of the house.
The existing cement board cladding will be swapped for a more modern white aesthetic laminate board.
The planning application to convert two stand alone garages into one taller version suggests Yioda herself is moving in, as it says that it will “enable the applicant to store a larger SUV”.
The changes to the home, located in a conservation area around the corner from celebs like Harry Styles and Lewis Capaldi, were welcomed by planning officer Daniel Pope.
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He said the removal of a water tank and installation of solar panels, will provide low carbon renewable energy and "aide the borough’s decentralised energy network".
There were no objections and Pope added: “Given the nature of the work and the distance away from neighbouring properties...
"The proposal is not considered harmful in terms of loss of privacy, outlook, implications to natural light, artificial light spill, or impacts caused from the construction phase of the development."
Scaffolding has now been erected all around the property, which when completed could fetch upwards of £10M.
After rising to fame with UK pop duo Wham! alongside Andrew Ridgeley, George launched what would become one of the most successful solo music careers of all time.
His iconic 1987 album Faith spawned four number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Throughout his career, he had eight Hot 100 chart-toppers and 16 Top 10 hits and is thought to have sold 125 million records worldwide.
Despite global success in the 1980s, he saw record sales dwindle.
From the late 1990s, he was beset by a string of personal crises and drug use, which got him in trouble with the law.
After being arrested for a “lewd act” in a public toilet in Beverly Hills, California in 1998.
