A Buckinghamshire couple have been given planning permission to build a new home just months after they were named in a planning breach investigation.

In April, Mr and Mrs Krishnamohan were ordered to clear a scrapyard that breached planning rules on Green Belt farmland south of Huntswood Lane, in Taplow near Maidenhead.

But, in recent days, council planners have given the applicants the green light to build a two-storey, six-bedroom home with a basement off Huntswood Lane, on the edge of the field where the scrapyard was located.

The basement will include a ‘play room’, cinema, library, wine cellar and a prayer room, which would be accessed internally via a staircase within the entrance hall and externally from a new terrace and sunken garden.

The approved plans say that the vast majority of the development would be ‘imperceptible’ as the basement itself would not be visible.

The only exception would be 1m high wooden railings either side of the sunken garden, which are ‘required for safety reasons’.

Plans read: “The terrace and sunken garden would be located in an area of lawn and would not affect the formal landscaping proposals approved under the detailed landscaping plan.”

The Krishnamohans were among those served with copies of an enforcement notice in April over an unapproved dump containing cars, vans and other scrap, which built up off Huntswood Lane.

Vehicle parts traders Adam Tomasz Pawlik and Bogdan Grudzinski were also handed copies of the notice by the council and told to clear the scrapyard.