Bake Off's Sue Perkins in row over neighbour's building plans

Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins is at loggerheads with her next door neighbours in leafy Hampstead, after the couple decided they wanted to build a bungalow in their garden. Perkins has objected to the project, and the elderly couple next door has told the press that the disagreement has made them 'upset and sad'.

The Daily Mail reported that Timothy and Caroline Gladstone, who are in their 80s, want to move from the £3 million townhouse, to something more manageable nearby. They have decided the best bet is to build themselves a home to retire into in their current back garden.

They reportedly held an open day to discuss the plans, but according to The Mirror, Caroline said she did not see the comedian and presenter there. The couple said she hadn't spoken to them either, she simply put her objection into the council.

In her official objection she wrote: "The idea that [a] house could be built in a back garden is unconscionable. The construction of a residential property would be hugely detrimental to the architectural and historic significance of the area."

"Finally, and most importantly, the authorisation of this building would set a precedent that would erode and destroy the character of this historic area - namely that back gardens can be turned into development opportunities."

She's far from alone: there have been 25 local objections from people who feel the ultra-modern one bedroom bungalow would destroy the character of the neighbourhood - including former Holby City actress Patricia Potter and Beatles biographer Hunter Davies.

Perkins told the Daily Mail she didn't want to comment on the case, adding: "I'm just a normal person trying to live a normal life." She's quite right, it's perfectly normal to disagree with your neighbours - three in ten of us apparently do it.

There are also plenty of celebrities who have not always seen eye to high with people living nearby.

Not alone

Earlier this week it was Eve Myles, best known for her role in Broadchurch, who was ordered to demolish a fence after she erected it without planning permission, and her neighbours complained.

A month earlier, tennis coach Judy Murray saw off complaints from neighbours and got permission to remove a flat, crenelated roof on a tower attached to her house - and replace it with a pitched one. The neighbours complained that it would spoil the quirky character of the building, but planners agreed that given the fact that the original design was so flawed that it would always be leaky, it made sense to make the change.

A couple of years ago Fiona Fullerton was in the papers over a row with the neighbours. She had apparently chopped down two huge Cypress trees in her garden - after advice that they had become dangerous. Neighbours, however, complained that the move had damaged the character of the area.

But one of the strangest celebrity neighbour rows was when Robbie Williams bought Michael Winner's old home in Holland Park, and put in for planning permission to make extensive changes. He ended up making and withdrawing two sets of plans before finally agreeing the work, after a neighbour complained: that neighbour was Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.