By Katie Hind Showbusiness Editor For The Daily Mail
Published: 22:03 GMT, 9 March 2019 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 9 March 2019
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The singer is pictured with his wife Cherry. Sheeran's neighbours have written to planning officials with their objections
It seemed entirely in character for the nicest man in pop to build a wildlife pond on his Suffolk estate, providing a home for frogs, newts and dragonflies.
But now Ed Sheeran's neighbours are angry that the natural sanctuary has been altered into what they fear is a swimming pool for the star and his friends to party in.
Aerial pictures reveal the pond has a jetty to dive off and a wooden Romany-style caravan – which could make a convenient changing room – just feet from steps leading into the water.
The original 2016 planning application described how the pond would 'support nature conservation... providing a natural habitat for breeding and wetland invertebrates such as dragonflies and water beetles, as well as providing a source of drinking water to birds and mammals'.
Aerial pictures reveal the pond has a jetty to dive off and a wooden Romany-style caravan – which could make a convenient changing room – just feet from steps leading into the water
Officials made clear it should have 'no other uses', specifically forbidding 'recreational leisure such as swimming'.
Last year, East Suffolk
