A Scottish family of lottery winners are set to build a £5 million Hollywood-style mansion in Edinburgh, with breathtaking views of the city.
Lisa Charters and her husband Craig, both 33, are settling down in the capital after travelling the world, funded by an incredible £33 million lottery jackpot won by her parents six years ago.
The couple, from Hawick, in the Scottish Borders - who announced their engagement on a beach in the Bahamas - last year snapped up a modest three-bed bungalow in Edinburgh by paying £200,000 over the asking price of £670,000.
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Now, The Scottish Sun report that the pair have submitted plans to Edinburgh council that will see the bungalow demolished and replaced by an incredible five-bedroom mansion that has a terrace offering unrivalled views of Edinburgh Castle and beyond.
The home is designed by architects to be one of the mos modern and plush properties the city has ever seen, in what their planning agents have described as a 'significant statement'.
Blueprints for the home, that have just been made public, reveal the kind of glittering zinc, bricks and glass vision which normally appears on TV's Grand Designs, the Channel 4 show hosted by Kevin McCloud.
The current footprint of the humble bungalow is 160 square metres. The plan increases that to 554 square metres.
One property developer who has built homes for millionaires said: ‘It is quite a spectacular home but the first thing that strikes you about it is the sheer scale of the place.
‘Edinburgh’s planners are a conservative bunch, so a plan which seems to gobble up its garden may struggle to win planning permission.
‘There also appears to be a fairly dramatic driveway which curves up to the property, something you would expect to see in the Hollywood Hills. This has the potential to be a £5 million house.’
Lisa's parents, David and Carol Martin, won the life-changing sum of £33 million in the UK National Lottery jackpot in 2016.
The main living accommodation sits on the upper floor, with a dining/kitchen area connected by stairs to a large living space, with windows on each side.
It seems as if all of the bedrooms come with glass-fronted balconies as well. Using gravity, James Bond-style chutes will whizz the family’s rubbish down to the bins for collection.
The dramatic driveway rises up through the garden and actually cuts through the ground floor of the property.
The couple are directors of their own property firm, Charters Properties Ltd, set up in 2019. Its nature of business at Companies House is given as ‘other letting and operating of own or leased real estate’. In August last year, Lisa changed her occupation on the firm’s records to ‘house-wife’.
City of Edinburgh Council confirmed it received an official planning application last month.
The couple were not available for comment.
