MANCHESTER United star Gary Neville is planning to build a futuristic new family home – in an underground bunker.
Neville, 34, has submitted proposals to build an eco-friendly home buried in the ground in fields near Bolton.
Architects have likened it to a Stone Age settlement but the flower-shaped design with wind turbine has also been compared to the home of the Teletubbies.
The United skipper and his wife Emma already own a £6m, 12-bedroomed mansion on sprawling countryside between Bolton and Bury.
The plans for the new home reveal it would be built into the hillside so that the surrounding moorland would ‘seamlessly flow across the roof’.
Flower
The 8,000 sq ft home would take the shape of a flower – with a huge kitchen forming a hub in the middle. From there six off-shoots like petals would house bedrooms, bathroom, a swimming pool, a gym, an office, dining rooms a car garage.
The moorland surrounding the development would be landscaped to form children’s play areas.
The home, rumoured to be worth around £6m, is also being held up as a shining example of zero-carbon living.
The government want all homes to be carbon neutral by 2012.
A 39 metre-high wind turbine and ground heat pumps would provide the home’s electricity.
The plans, thought to be three years in the making, have been submitted to town hall planners and will be discussed at a meeting at a later date.
It is understood that Neville appeared personally before planning chiefs in Bolton to discuss the plans.
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January 26, 2010
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It's all a bit la-la really
Eh oh, bit Laa-Laa if you ask me. Bit Po-faced of him to build a monterous carbunkle like this in Bolton.
Hope the builder arnt Dipsy when they come to build this.
(struggling to get Tinky Winky in this one!)
Even the house is doing a star jump.
he'll look right at home in there, along with pinky winky!!!
Good for you Gary, this looks a perfect home for a modern family with traditional views regarding bringing up children in a loving and responsible environment. Keep up the great work.
ah go on ,your only jelouse, its ment to look like a toitoise, to match his speed when he stops playing
8,000 sq ft home worth 6 million quid !!
Remind me again,.....what does this guy do ?
Oh yeh,..he kicks a ball around for 90 minutes !!!
Must be a lot of money to be made in sucking socks if he can splash £6m on it...
I think its great. Eco friendly, fits in with the landscap, its almost invisible from the ground. Makes a nice change from all that terrible faux tudour stuff that footballers normally build.
It looks a bit "So... Mr Bond ..."
Not much going on in Manchester today then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ace
It'll be the best building in Bolton anyway!
Apparently teh Soup Dragon lives in the one on the top right.
Actually this is a brilliant idea its actually very energy bills to keep our houses warm,well garry it certainly looks the dogs to me....well done on intitive city players will be asking if the can come and have a look to which youll say go crawl under your rock.lol
Are you sure the Government wants ALL HOMES to be carbon neutral by 2012? That seems a tad ambitious. All NEW homes perhaps?
Somebody has to take the lead in this technology? and show everybody that even millionairs want to save money and the enviroment all he needs to do now is drive a electric car or get rid of the big guzzlers,now that will show how serious he is to become carbon neutral.
where he belongs under a stone
Outstanding. I would hope to see others live by example.
These footballers do have excessive lifestyles,just like the french aristocracy...and remember what happened to them !
Seems he's slightly more ahead than some of the ejits that post on here.
Looks good, you can see the land for miles around. Quiet and if the sun is out it'll be like a sauna.
I am jealous.
I think it is fantastic eco friendly and not a blot on the landscape like some of the silly mansions some of them live in.
All NEW homes is right .. and by 2016 not 2012. And that's still mighty ambitious.
inexplicasam,
27/01/2010 at 11:31
Are you sure the Government wants ALL HOMES to be carbon neutral by 2012? That seems a tad ambitious. All NEW homes perhaps?