{"id":71235,"date":"2025-05-03T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71235\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T13:20:10","slug":"george-michaels-10m-london-mansion-undergoes-major-transformation-after-alarming-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/71235\/","title":{"rendered":"George Michael’s \u00a310m London mansion undergoes major transformation after ‘alarming’ issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Michael<\/a>‘s \u00a310 million London mansion is starting to look a lot better than before, following his sister Yioda beginning her renovation plans for the home.<\/p>\n

The late Wham! singer first purchased the property back in 1987, and lived there for many years, but it was later left behind<\/a> when he chose to split his time between his country home in Goring, Oxfordshire and another London mansion in Highgate.<\/p>\n

\"George\u00a9 GettyGeorge Michael passed away on Christmas Day 2016<\/p>\n

When he passed away in 2016, Yioda inherited the home, vowing to restore it to its former condition.<\/p>\n

It seems that, according to new photos obtained by The Sun<\/a>, a fair bit of progress has been made, as the scaffolding along the outside of the house has been removed and a new modern roof has been installed.<\/p>\n

The renovation plans for the mansion begun last year<\/p>\n

In 2024, Yioda sought permission to remove a water tank from the roof, replace the roof, and fix the crumbling cladding. She also aimed to convert two garages into living rooms to ‘reinstate the character of the house’.<\/p>\n

She also intends to install new decking around the main house and raise the window on the upper ground floor so that the room has a broader view of the garden.<\/p>\n

George Michael’s sister faced some difficulties in the process<\/p>\n

In January, landscape designers, on behalf of Yioda, submitted their plans to either fell or heavily prune nine trees that had supposedly become a ‘threat’ to the home, but the neighbours were not at all happy.<\/p>\n

A community group, the Redington Frognal Neighbourhood Forum, sent in two separate letters complaining about the developments. The first read: “Any loss of mature trees which provide habitat for wildlife is regrettable.”<\/p>\n

\"George\u00a9 Geoffrey Swaine\/ShutterstockGeorge Michael spent his later years between London and his home in Goring, Oxfordshire<\/p>\n

It continued: “The need for maintenance is recognised, but should not be undertaken during the nesting season,” also noting that the trees are located in a space with a significant amount of underground water.<\/p>\n

The second letter was sent just four days later, adding: “Having now checked the history of intent to fell notifications over the past years, it is very concerning that three mature forest trees have been lost: two poplars and a sycamore.” The forum hence called for two of the felled trees to be replaced during the renovations.<\/p>\n

\"Tributes\u00a9 Andy Rain\/EPA\/ShutterstockFans left tributes to George Michael outside his London home when he died in 2016<\/p>\n

One angry neighbour complained about the plans on a public planning portal, stating that: “There have already been a large number of trees felled in this property and the adjoining one. It is alarming and suspicious that so many more are now being targeted.”<\/p>\n

However, Yioda was eventually given planning permission by the Camden Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Michael‘s \u00a310 million London mansion is starting to look a lot better than before, following his sister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,12389,393,28059,4884,1268,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-71235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-celebrity-homes","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-george-michael","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homes","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114444109446414435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}