When Martin Clunes bought his £3 million hilltop farm from Georgia Langton, the garden designer, he had to drive past her new age Traveller son living in a caravan beside the private driveway to his home.Theo Langton had moved out of his family’s country house years earlier to live a more nomadic life in an acre of woodland he owns 300 yards below the farmhouse.
The 61-year-old Doc Martin star from Beaminster, Dorset, is objecting to the application by the couple, saying they are not nomads and the proposals would set a harmful precedent .
The veteran actor s neighbours, new age eco hippies Theo Langdon and Ruth McGill, submitted a planning application for a permanent traveller site next to their Devon home.
Dorset Council recommended the the plans to build a permanent traveller site on Wintergreen Barn, Meerhay, just outside Beaminster, right next to the TV star s Dorset farm.