Harry Enfield's plans for his Loadsamoney £11 million home horrify the Notting ... trends now

His talent for invention once seemed unstoppable, inspiring a cast of richly ludicrous characters, from Stavros the kebab shop owner and DJ 'Smashie' to Kevin the teenager and, perhaps most memorably of all, Loadsamoney, the shamelessly avaricious plasterer.

But I can disclose that Harry Enfield's latest creative effort has been condemned not merely as 'perfectly foul' – a verdict bestowed on his various television personas by his own father – but as 'harmful' and 'damaging'.

This time, the critics aren't drawn from Enfield's family – his father, Edward, died in 2019 – but from neighbours in eye-wateringly expensive Notting Hill, where Enfield, 62, and his wife, Lucy, shelled out £6million for a five-storey family house back in 2008.

Since then, Enfield has walked out on Lucy – abandoning her in the summer 2020, as I revealed – and the property has soared in value, so much so that it would now fetch at least £11million if it came on the market.

But the estranged couple, who, according to Land Registry records, still jointly own the house, have decided that it's in need of improvement by inserting a second dormer window in the front roof and altering the dormer window to the rear.

Down on the ground floor, they're additionally seeking permission for a patio extension and the insertion of an air-conditioning unit, new railings, a five-and-a-half foot trellis screen, and metal rooflights and 'bi-fold' doors.

Alas, their plans have failed to find favour with locals, who include Ruby Wax and her husband, television producer Ed Bye, and fat-cat former Chancellor George Osborne, who snapped up a house round the corner for £10million in 2022.

In a scathing summary, members of the Ladbroke Association, which battles to preserve 'the beauty, history and character of the neighbourhood', decries the proposed new rear dormer window as 'enormous and overbearing'. Summarising the alterations as a whole as 'harmful to the conservation area and damaging to the very charm and character that make people want to live in the area', it then points out that the house 'appears to have perfectly good timber-framed windows at lower ground level'.

These, it adds, 'could easily be replaced by timber-framed bi-fold ones'. Indeed, it concludes, there seems to be no reason for metal 'crittall-style' windows – 'except fashion'.

Enfield, himself no longer as fashionable as once he was, declines to comment. Perhaps he's consoling himself in the arms of the younger woman with whom he was pictured after walking out on Lucy, mother of his three children?

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