Fracking billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has caused uproar in the New Forest with plans to replace a corrugated tin beach hut with a £4m modernist house.
The site, near Beaulieu and over-looking the Isle of Wight, is on low-lying countryside, and as such would be turned down by planners. But the Ineos chairman’s house will be designed to raise itself up out of danger on 73 hydraulic piton jacks. The building’s architect, Charles Morris, also believes that the innovative design will also satisfy the so-called Gummer Clause, which allows exceptional homes to be built in protected countryside.
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