Robbie Williams hits a new roadblock as he attempts to build a pool and gym in a £17.5m home

Robbie Williams has hit another roadblock in his attempts to build an underground swimming pool and gym at his £17.5m London home.

The 48-year-old singer had hoped to start working out at a gym in his sprawling mansion in posh Holland Park for the past six years, but his neighbor, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, 79, balked at the moves. plans.

The plans were initially approved by Kensington and Chelsea council, but the former Take That star has since been told he has to apply to have the deeds to his property legally changed for construction work to proceed.

Rocker Jimmy claims vibrations from the works could damage ancient paintings and frescoes at his Grade I listed property, where he has resided since 1972, according to Sun.

Robbie has also previously requested to build a two-story building-sized trellis fence around his house in an attempt to keep it out of the sight of fans, but withdrew his planning request after receiving an anonymous letter from a member of the audience that seemed to mock him.

It read: ‘I wholeheartedly support Robbie Williams’ right to have a fence around his home.

‘An Englishman’s home is his castle and his right must be given. The general public would perhaps benefit if the fence were taller and built to a soundproof standard!’

MailOnline has contacted representatives for Robbie and Jimmy for comment.

In November, Robbie risked reigniting tensions with his rock star neighbor Jimmy after deciding he wanted to cut down trees near their shared fence.

Several trees stand near pop star Robbie’s border with Jimmy, who founded his band Led Zeppelin.

Robbie planned to completely fell a heavily leaning magnolia, said to be in an inappropriate position, and grind down the stump, completely removing all traces of it.

He also wanted to cut down a cherry tree that was leaning over a path while it was being cut down to ground level.

Robbie hoped to thin a bay tree in his front yard by 20 percent to allow light penetration and trim neighboring trees down to 5 feet.

A horse chestnut tree was also set to be thinned, with a branch too spread out to be cut by five meters and the rest of the canopy subject to 15 per cent reduction while dead and defective wood were removed.

Robbie also wanted to further thin a Chinese ash tree by up to 20 percent while struggling to allow light penetration and retain the tree’s shape.

A medlar, an evergreen shrub prized for its orange fruit, would also have shrunk to 1.5 meters.

Candy singer’s garden is shown to include an ancient limestone paving, dominated by a gazebo.

A circular driveway at the corner of the property is made of magma granite to match the edges of the pebble driveways that surround his house and to the rear of the property.

Other sections are clad with Cedagravel matting, while cut-faced Yorkshire paving steps lead up to the front of the garden.

The Led Zeppelin guitarist was allowed to trim trees in his luxury apartment in June last year, just a month after Robbie was denied permission to cut one.

Jimmy submitted plans on April 21 to redevelop a laurel tree in front of his Grade I listed platform.

It was approved a month later with the city council qualifying the works as ‘routine maintenance’.

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said: “The Council does not raise any objections to the proposed work.”

Just two weeks before Jimmy applied, Robbie was denied planning permission to cut down a 70-foot Robinia tree in his yard.

This was despite the sprawling monster destroying his garden wall, obscuring the street light, and rotting at the base.

But officials working under the delegated powers rejected his request, claiming that Robbie had provided no evidence of the extent of the breakdown.

They even suggested Robbie rebuild and move his cracked partition wall to allow the tree to grow larger.

Amanda Reid, the council’s Director of Planning and Site, ruled: “If there is decay at the base of the tree, this degree of decay needs to be quantified before removal of this highly amenity TPO tree can be considered.”

‘If the tree is causing the wall to crack, cutting down the tree to a height of 1 meter will not fix this problem, as the tree will regenerate.

“Also, the wall could probably be rebuilt to allow for future tree growth without damage.”

Jimmy’s mansion was once owned by poet John Betjeman and Dumbledore actor Richard Harris.

He outbid David Bowie to buy it in 1972, at just 28 years old.

The Tower House was designed between 1875 and 1881 by ‘art architect’ William Burges as his home, and the rooms have themes such as time, love and literature.

To maintain the house, the star has had specialists install scaffolding and soap down the walls, and only plays acoustic guitar to prevent damage.

Robbie, who owns properties around the world, has lived in his 47-room home after buying it from the family of the late director and restaurant critic Michael Winner in 2013.

During this time, it has been the subject of 46 planning decisions while struggling to renovate it.

In 2017, former The X Factor judge Robbie submitted plans for a giant shed on stilts in his garden so his children could have a place to play.

This sparked the fury of residents who complained that it would block light from their gardens and spoil the surroundings.

He later drew more fury and had to apologize after saying that Jimmy was mentally ill and had been sitting for hours in his car in front of his house.

He told Italian radio DeeJay: ‘Jimmy has been sitting in his car outside our house for four hours straight.

He’s recording the workers to see if they make too much noise.

The masons came in and he was asleep in his garden waiting.

It’s like a mental illness.