A 'house in the trees' is cut down by planners

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A 'house in the trees' is cut down by planners

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2007 / June 13

A former Masterchef who designed an award-winning home has been forced to downsize plans for his next project. Gerry Goldwyre has won an array of architectural awards for his refurbishment of an 19th century water tower in Midlothian. The transformation of the B-listed building into an eight-storey home even impressed Lloyd Grossman when it featured on TV series Through The Keyhole. But his original vision for a "house in the trees" in one-and-a-half acres of woodland opposite The Watertower had to be scaled back after planners objected. Although he now has council permission to build a house in the garden it will not now meet the grand designs Mr Goldwyre and wife Susan had hoped for.

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