Richmond MP and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has submitted plans to build a fence around his North Yorkshire home following a protest by Greenpeace campaigners.
The application has been submitted to North Yorkshire Council.
It states that the wooden fence will “provide a simple visual and modest physical barrier to discourage incursion onto the residential property”.
Campaigners draped the property with oil-black fabric to protest against the Government’s plans to grant more than 100 new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea.
A planning application, which is currently awaiting a decision, to erect a “a timber post and rail fence” measuring 165ft long and 4ft high was submitted on October 11.
The document states that it has been made: “with the intention to provide a simple visual and modest physical barrier to discourage incursion onto the residential property”.
The application calls for “a prompt decision given the simplicity of the proposals and site circumstances”.
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