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She was the face of the 1960s and has long been a champion of countryside causes.
But now Twiggy has been dragged into a local row over the sale of her house in a historic village.
Her former neighbours in Barnham, West Sussex, claim the sale has led to the spoiling of their rural idyll and will affect local wildlife.
The model, who is a patron of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, sold her house in 2020. A sequence of events followed the sale, with a new 200-house development on ‘pristine farmland’ now given the go-ahead.
It meant the bottom half of the house’s large garden is to be turned into an access road for the new estate. But the 72-year-old, also known as Dame Lesley Lawson, has moved away from the neighbourhood.
She was the face of the 1960s and has long been a champion of countryside causes. But now Twiggy has been dragged into a local row over the sale of her house in a historic village
The model, who is a patron of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, sold her house in 2020. A sequence of events followed the sale, with a new 200-house development on ‘pristine farmland’ now given the go-ahead
Former neighbour Graham Fields, 65, an electronic engineer, said Twiggy and husband Allan Leigh Lawson
