A NOTED lyricist and author who helped pen some of the best-loved musicals of all time is planning to install a series of ornamental pools at his Buckinghamshire property.
Sir Tim Rice has submitted to Bucks Council a planning application for his property in Skirmett Road, Hambleden.
Sir Tim, who co-wrote such smash hit musicals as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita alongside composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, is seeking permission for a series of four shallow ornamental ponds, linked together with narrow rills, situated within an existing avenue of pleached lime trees.
PICTURED: What the new ornamental ponds might look like.
The pools are to be edged with natural Yorkstone paving and framed with planting, according to council documents.
A Yorkstone-paved seating area at the end of the pools will offer views back towards the house, it also states.
PICTURED: How it looks now.
Sir Tim, who was born at Shardeloes, an 18th Century country house not far from Amersham, on November 10, 1944, also in his career worked with Disney on Aladdin and The Lion King – and with ABBA musicians Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson co-wrote Chess, a musical set in the Cold War.
He also worked on the stage adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, and the animated adventure-musical film The Road to El Dorado.
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He was knighted for his services to music in 1994.
Bucks Council received the application on May 12.
Sir Tim is now ‘awaiting a decision’ from the local authority.
PICTURED: Sir Tim Rice.
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