Dua Lipa is having her new swimming pool at her London mansion dug by hand to avoid a row with her neighbours.
The Training Season hitmaker, 28, has endured a two-year battle with the local council for permission after locals complained.
Now, workers at her £6.75m pad in Hampstead will have to use picks and shovels to install the new pool and basement – which will come complete with a recording studio – all in an effort to reduce noise.
According to The Sun, her team told planners: ‘A basement dig would typically have potential for noise and vibration to pass through to neighbouring.
‘In this case, as the existing house is completely detached and the dig would be a manual operation, the extent of noise transmission would be mitigated.
‘As a safety measure, movement monitoring would be undertaken to give early warning of any building movement.’
The GRAMMY Award-winning star – who has a reported net worth of £75 million – bought the sprawling property in 2017 for for £6.75 million when she was just 22 years old.
Last year Dua was given the go ahead but work on the site had to kept to a minimum and equipment must be mounted with ‘anti-vibration isolators’ to avoid disturbing the neighbours.
A source told The Sun last year: ‘Dua’s plans for her house are epic and after four years she has finally started looking for builders to start work on her music studio, pool, gym, cinema and chillout area.
‘She has to adhere to some pretty strict agreements because of how much objection there was to her plans over the loss of green space.
‘Her building team will have to keep the sounds of power tools to a whisper and all the equipment must be mounted with anti-vibration insulators.
‘No one should be aware any work is taking place and Dua’s neighbours could kick up a stink if they are. Dua doesn’t want to cause any annoyance and she is looking forward to making her house a home.’
The Levitating singer picked up the North London pad and submitted plans for renovations, but the scheme has been going backwards and forwards with her local council ever since.
At the time, she landed in hot water with conservationists over her Grand Designs-style plans for a massive makeover of her home including a basement swimming pool – complete with a ‘chill-out area’.
In a letter to the council, secretary Nancy Mayo wrote in December 2021: ‘The forum notes that the pre-application advice received is that the existing rear extension should not be demolished as it positively contributes to the character and appearance of the host dwelling.
‘Boundary walls constructed from lava bricks (also known as clinker bricks) are a very important feature of the Conservation Area. The ivy-clad lava brick boundary walls are notable features of the streetscapes.
‘The Forum objects to the felling of the willow tree and the re-building, or any potential harm, to the boundary walls.
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