Harry Styles has reportedly been given planning permission for a mansion in Hampstead, so long as he creates a haven for wildlife.
According to reports, the former One Direction singer, 31, is planning to knock two semi-detached homes back in to one huge £30million super-mansion.
The Mail says the actor purchased the first property for £8.8 million in April 2019, and later bought the adjoining house for £4.175million, and that he submitted a planning application last year.
But The Sun now reports that Barnet council have a list of environmental requirements the star must obey, including things such as hedgehog boxes, bat boxes and even two “bug hotels” to help support protected wildlife.
The paper reports that if Harry doesn’t start on the requirements by the May start deadline, he will have to redo surveys.
Styles’ plans for the mansion sound like a grand affair, as the paper says that they “include a master suite with four dressing rooms, a private lounge, gallery space and indoor patio”.
It’s thought it will take two years to build.
Earlier this year, former Little Mix star and singer-songwriter Jade Thirlwall revealed that she and Styles had once dated, making for the ultimate X Factor boyband-girlband crossover — if he hadn’t ghosted her.
Speaking playfully about the incident, which happened while Thirlwall and Styles were still in their teens, she told The Louis Theroux Podcast: “I think we went on like one date when we were like 16 or something.”
Thirlwall was a member of Little Mix, the X Factor-winning girlband who took the world by storm after they appeared on the cult talent show in 2011.
In turn, Styles was a member of One Direction, the boyband that prompted near-Beatlemania levels of hysteria when they competed on The X Factor in 2010.
It could have been the crossover to end all crossovers. Except Styles’s career blew up right around the time they went on a date.
The revelation was prompted by Theroux mentioning an old clip of Thirlwall from 2010 where she interacts with Harry Styles. “In fact there’s a clip on YouTube […] And Harry runs up and it's like, surprise, and then you look fairly blasé about it,” he said. “And the comments are like, love how Jade gives him the side eye or something, not side eye, but it's basically how you seemingly unimpressed you are.”
Thirlwall replies: “I didn't know he was going to be the Harry Styles, did I? I think we went on like one date when again, we were like 16 or something. Yeah, he’d just got put in the band.”
The singer-songwriter went on to explain how she and Styles “kept in touch” but then he dropped contact. “... Then the minute they went on live shows, he didn't message me back and I thought, ‘That's it now, he's gone, he's made it.’
However, Styles did at least apologise for ghosting Thirlwall. “And then I made it the next year, and then I saw him in the room after, and he was like, ‘I'm really sorry that I ignored you,’” she recalled. “I was so young, it didn't really matter. But he was always very, very lovely.”
