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.