A grieving widow whose spectacular £1million home featured on Homes Under the Hammer is at the center of a row of planning after it emerged she and her late husband built it bigger than expected , in the wrong direction and with an unauthorized swimming pool.

Angela Vickers and her late husband Ian bought a four-acre plot and submitted plans to demolish an old bungalow in Hampshire and replace it with a three-bedroom oak-framed house five years ago.

The couple were ordered to demolish the dream home after it was found to breach their planning request, including being built in the wrong location and having an unplanned swimming pool. The decision was later overturned but Angela remains locked in an argument with her disgruntled neighbors.

The BBC episode Homes Under The Hammer showed Mr Vickers building the oak-framed house himself, with a “magnificent” swimming pool to the south, a patio to the north, a garage with an office above, a chicken coop and a garden chalet.

Angela Vickers and her late husband Ian spent £250,000 building their dream home but didn’t have proper planning permission

Mr Vickers built the oak-framed house himself, with a ‘glorious’ swimming pool to the south, which did not have permission to be built

However, the finished house – located in a conservation area in Hampshire’s New Forest – has infuriated neighbors after being built 4ft taller than planned, pointed in a different direction and in a different location from the original plans .

Neither the pool nor the additional outbuildings the couple built had permission either, it emerged.

The Vickers initially asked to retrospectively amend the building permit to include the pool and other changes, but these were denied and they were told to demolish it.

The Vickers appealed this decision and, in an attempt to resolve the situation, another application was submitted and approved to reduce the size of the building in July this year – after Mr Vickers’ death – instead of demolition .

But the Vickers’ neighbors are currently challenging that approval and have sought a judicial review of the planning process.

Mr and Mrs Vickers bought the land and single-storey house in 2017 in Godshill Wood, New Forest, Hampshire, after the previous owners received consent to replace the old bungalow with a two-storey property.

On Homes Under the Hammer, presenter Lucy Alexander said of the old house: “It looks more like a glorified shed or a ramshackle holiday cottage.”

She warned that getting planning permission for their home was going to be tricky.

After Ian’s death, Angela remains locked in a dispute with her neighbors over the £1million house

The couple’s project was featured on popular BBC program Homes Under The Hammer

Many features of the house, including the huge swimming pool, were not included in the building permit

Neighbors later complained that the house had been built in the wrong direction and was bigger than originally planned

But Mrs Vickers bragged about how her husband was going to convince the local authorities. “I’m going to send Ian and he’s going to charm them,” she said.

When the show revisited the completed project – in which a local estate agent valued the new home at £1million – Ms Alexander admired the new building and was particularly impressed by the “incredible” swimming pool.

Mr Vickers boasted on the show: ‘There’s about 20 oak trees that have gone into this house – all the oak framing and everything, the whole kitchen, the doors in and out , they were all made by us.

“A lot of job satisfaction in the whole place, really.”

However, it didn’t take long for local residents to make a fuss.

After complaints were lodged with the local planning authority, an enforcement notice was issued for the building to be demolished.

Mrs Vickers, 59, who was widowed after her husband died aged 75, tried to resolve the situation and managed to persuade them to let her reduce the size of the building rather than demolish it.

But the Vickers’ neighbors are determined that won’t be the end of the matter.

Mark Atwill, a close neighbor claims to be directly affected by light pollution and windows overlooking.

He said: “It was not done with consideration. It’s in the wrong place, and it’s the wrong size. All that extra stuff was added, like the pool and the outbuildings.

One of the couple’s neighbors in Hampshire accused Ian (left) of being a ‘crook’ after his death

After complaints were lodged with the local planning authority, an enforcement notice was issued for the building to be demolished, but it has since been rescinded.

Angela persuaded the local authorities to allow the house to be reduced rather than demolished

The Vickers’ dream three-bedroom home is set in idyllic Hampshire countryside

“The house is squat. I had dump trucks driving by my house when it was under construction. Nobody was informed until the end of the consultation period. It seems so strange.

“He’s a crook who’s not there for the backlash. I don’t want to speak ill of the dead, but I can’t think of any other way to say it.

A male neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said: ‘It’s not personal. The house looks good, but it shouldn’t be there.

“It was like living near a war zone when it was built.”

Raymond Clem, who lives on the same road, wrote to the New Forest National Park Planning Authority [NPA] to oppose Mrs. Vickers’ plan to downsize the house.

“As an immediate neighbor of this application site, I’m afraid I received no notice of it from the planning department,” he said.

“Since 2016, this site has been mired in controversy, and a myriad of submitted plans have caused confusion.”

Ms Christina Folliard, another neighbour, wrote: ‘I am aware that there is an ongoing judicial review of the ridiculous previous approval in which the authority reversed its positions and ignored all the continuing damage this development is causing .

The dream house replaced this dilapidated cottage on the plan after the owners received permission to demolish it

On Homes Under the Hammer, presenter Lucy Alexander said of the old house: ‘It looks more like a glorified shed or a ramshackle holiday cottage’

Angela and Ian Vickers speak with Lucy Alexander during the program appearance

The former house on the Hampshire plot has been demolished to make way for the dream home

“It encourages others with similar intent to build what they want, as authority clearly has no ability or will to prevent or remedy such action, especially since it is not the first time these candidates have behaved in this way.”

But one local, Mr Fletcher, said: ‘A sensible solution requiring corrective action was found earlier this year. Let him rest. The more change Peasant takes, the greater the disruption to my home.

“The enforcement order which required the demolition of the new property was grossly disproportionate to the damage caused.

“All Mr. Vickers had done was build a house and a maid to boot. There was never any subterfuge, the process was open and he invited everyone to come see him.

Ms. Vickers declined to comment.