A Wycombe man has been given planning permission to extend his home despite his neighbour’s ‘deteriorating’ mental health.

Umer Zaman was given consent to build a single-storey rear extension, a detached ‘gym’ and a 1.8m high fence at his home, ‘Redlands’ on Colville Road, High Wycombe.

Planning officers said the development would be ‘of an appropriate scale and siting’ and ‘would represent a suitably proportionate addition to the property’.

Mr Zaman’s approved plans are a scaled-back version of his previous proposals, which several neighbours objected to.

The applicant originally proposed a part single, part two storey rear extension, as well as the fence and outbuilding.

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But his 70-year-old next-door neighbour claimed her “mental health was deteriorating” because of building work at Redlands and threatened to move out if the extension went ahead.

Another neighbour wrote: “All my activities in my garden can now be observed from Redlands which has destroyed my privacy.”

Following these objections, Mr Zaman submitted amended plans for a single storey rear extension.

But the applicant’s new blueprints also caused controversy despite being given the green light by planners.

Neighbours objected to the addition of a shower in the detached ‘gym’, claiming that this ‘moves the building towards being a habitable dwelling’.