EXCLUSIVE: Naga Munchetty serves up plans for Grand Designs-style revamp of her £1.8milion home including a new games room and hidden library
BBC Breakfast star Naga Munchetty has served up plans for a Grand Designs-style revamp of her £1.8million Hertfordshire home – complete with a games room and hidden library.
The news anchor and TV director husband James Haggar have taken a leaf out of the Channel 4 home improvement programme with proposals to extend their four-bedroom pad.
They want a bigger living room to make way for a games area including a pool table and darts board, and a secret library with a hidden panelled door.
The couple have also applied to the local council for planning permission for a fifth bedroom, new Juliet balconies and roof lights.
But they could face a battle with planners as their contemporary-style home, in Rickmansworth, is a designated heritage asset and lies within a conservation area.
Naga Munchetty is planning a Grand Designs style redevelopment of her Hertfordshire home (which she’s seen inside in 2016)
Architect’s drawings showing plans for Munchetty’s £1.8million Hertfordshire home
She and her husband want a bigger living room to make way for a games area including a pool table and dart board, and a secret library with a hidden panelled door
In a heritage statement, the couple’s planning agent said: ‘Whilst the property is of a high quality design, it does not contribute to the character and appearance or historic development of the conservation area.
‘Furthermore, the property is on the edge of the designated area, separated from the existing open spaces which define the historic green by dense verdant borders and three more modern properties.
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‘The property cannot be seen from the public realm and is not included in views. It is therefore considered that the proposed works would have no impact on the character and appearance of the conservation area.
‘[The house] does not form part of the historic development of the area, does not include historic or significant fabric, or contribute to the character and appearance of the area.
‘We have been very careful to retain as much of the existing structure as possible along with the unique character of the property.’
Munchetty, 48, has formally applied to Three Rivers District Council for planning permission for a single storey rear extension, a first floor side extension and roof alterations including an increase in ridge height.
They have also submitted proposals for new side Juliet balconies, velux rooflights, and internal alterations and more doors and windows.
Outside, there will be a sunken fire pit to go with an existing courtyard water feature and feature fence panel.
Munchetty with her TV director husband James Haggar at a London awards ceremony in 2017
The agent added: ‘It is proposed to construct a flat-roofed single storey extension to the east elevation of the property with a small gabled two-storey extension at the meeting point of it and the existing two-storey section of the property.
‘A first floor extension is also proposed to replace the existing balcony of the south elevation.
‘A single pitch roof form would be continued in the addition similar to the existing but with the short sections of parapet wall to the side removed.
‘Six velux rooflights are to be fitted to the existing single storey section of the property over the entrance, whilst two large, flat skylights would be used in the new flat roofed addition.’
Munchetty paid £920,000 for her T-shaped Hertfordshire home in 2010 but it is now believed to be worth £1.8million, more than £2million if the extensions are given the go-ahead.
Munchetty paid £920,000 for her T-shaped Hertfordshire home in 2010 but it is now believed to be worth £1.8million. Pictured is the kitchen
One of the downstairs living areas at the property
In a 2016 interview, she told the Daily Mail: ‘I moved to this house six years ago with my husband.
‘And if I’m not away working I’ll be curled up on this sofa most nights watching TV and stroking my two Siamese cats, Kinky and Ronnie.
‘I was born and bred in south London, so living in Hertfordshire is a big change and I love it. I can look out of the window and see nothing but fields and I feel very safe here.
‘I wanted a dog, but it wouldn’t fit our lifestyle, so we got the cats and they’re our pride and joy.’
Officials are expected to make a decision later this month and there have so far been no objections from neighbours.
Other famous residents who live nearby include singers Ronan Keating, of Boyzone, and Martin Kemp, of Spandau Ballet.
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