A couple can bulldoze their secluded mansion in a Bucks village and replace it with a new one, Buckinghamshire Council has said.

The authority has given Mr and Mrs T Duddy permission to transform their property ‘Little Pollards’ off Nightingales Lane in Little Chalfont.

The applicants can now demolish the existing house (The Coach House), the detached garden buildings and garage.

These are to be replaced by a two-storey house with a basement and a detached single storey garden building.

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There will also be a replacement detached triple garage serving the property, which sits in swathes of greenspace and has its own pool.

Little Pollards is located down a private road among a “dense woodland area in Chalfont St Giles,” which “has been characterised by large, detached dwellings each within generous plot sizes”.

A design statement for the application reads: “The proposed Coach House has been designed in a traditional style but is materially different to the existing house on site creating an obvious but harmonic visual separation between the existing main house and the proposed Coach House.”

Plans for the new Coach House include five bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, a wine store and a larder.

The new garden building will feature a games space with a TV, bar, pool table and corner sofa.