Pippa Middleton and her husband have been ordered to tear up an unauthorised car park they built on their Berkshire estate, in a victory for local villagers.
The Princess of Wales's sister and her husband James Matthews did not have planning permission when they created the 4,000sq ft hard standing on a meadow at Kintbury last year.
Locals complained to the council, accusing the couple of countryside 'urbanisation' after they built the 'unsightly' car park on land next to the River Kennet.
Now West Berkshire council has ordered the couple to remove it, maintaining that it was out of keeping with the 'beauty, landscape, character or rural setting' of the village.
It is the latest twist in the couple's long-running row with villagers. They previously clashed with residents after they blocked a public right of way through the estate, to the dismay of local ramblers and dog walkers.
Ms Middleton, 43, and her hedge fund manager husband, 51, own the land, which is part of the £15.5million, 145-acre Barton Court estate where the couple have lived since 2022.
Planners agreed with the villagers' objections, ruling in February that the car park had introduced 'an urbanising and visually intrusive feature into a highly sensitive rural landscape within the North Wessex Downs National Landscape'.
Objectors had argued that the couple installed the car park to stop cars from spoiling views closer to their home.
Pippa Middleton and her husband, James Matthews, have been ordered to remove an unauthorised car park they built on their £15.5 million Berkshire estate
One angry villager wrote: 'I was shocked when all the fencing went up and a huge gravel area was laid at the side of this marsh in a rural area. It looks like the urbanisation of the countryside and is totally out of keeping.'
Another complained: 'This application is to move unsightly parking out of sight of the applicants on entry to the Barton Court estate, to the detriment of the residents and the heritage of Kintbury.'
Representatives for the estate said the car park, built for use by fishermen and angling clubs, was necessary because 'income derived from the estate from sale of its fishing rights along the river is a significant income stream which supports the wider upkeep of the land'.
The couple's appeal to overturn the council's ruling was dismissed by the Planning Inspectorate, which ruled the development was 'directly harming the rural landscape'.
The meadow was well known among residents as the former home of two heavy horses - Monty and Drummer - which used to graze on the land before the change of owners.
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