Taylor Swift angers Rhode Island neighbours by building sea wall

Taylor Swift has angered locals in Rhode Island by "tearing up the beach" to build a sea wall in front of her mansion.

The 24-year-old singer reportedly started the construction at her Watch Hill summer holiday home without a public notice and residents in the area are furious because it restricts access to the public beach.

One local told Radar Online: "She's tearing up the beach and everyone is pissed off about it."

Another neighbour said: "This is just the latest of all the things she's done to try to take over our beach since she moved in. She needs to realise that just because she bought a house overlooking the beach, she doesn't own it.

"Volunteers work all summer to keep this part of the beach clean and accessible to everyone, and the work she is doing is going to have an effect on the tides, the amount of accessible shoreline, everything!"

Reports by local media suggest that Swift doesn't have a permit for the work.

But according to the Providence Journal, a spokeswoman for the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, which regulates development in coastal regions, said Swift got the permits from the CRMC.

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