Ellie Goulding is dealing with a £100,000 invoice to repair the barn at her £1.three million manor home within the Cotswolds.
The 33-year-old pop star is planning to revive the Grade-II listed, six-bedroom abode to its unique state, after the property’s former proprietor remodeled the constructing into a marriage venue with out planning permission.
Ellie’s plans – which embody restoring the constructing’s roof and demolishing an extension – will price her a considerable sum of cash, and the principle beneficiaries would be the uncommon bats that reside within the roof of the constructing.
The modifications will see the lesser horseshoe bats being given containers to reside in, and the singer’s efforts have been praised by the Bat Conservation Trust.
The charity – which is devoted to the conservation of bats and their habitats within the UK – advised The Sun newspaper: ”It’s nice Ellie’s taking care of them.”
Earlier this yr, Ellie claimed she has an ”affinity for the pure world”.
The ‘Love Me Like You Do’ hitmaker grew to become a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador in 2018, and Ellie thinks her curiosity in environmental points stems from her upbringing in rural Britain.
She stated: ”I grew up within the countryside, in the midst of nowhere, so I’ve an affinity for the pure world. So I’ve at all times been actually involved about it.
”And by way of the UN, I’ve managed to talk to local weather scientists, specialists, who have been very, very anxious. And I’ve discovered a lot and it means I can move that data on to my followers and to youthful individuals, the those who observe me, and use my platform for one thing good.”
Ellie additionally defined how she joined forces with the UN within the first occasion.
She shared: ”I used to be approached by the UN a number of years again as a result of I used to be posting a number of content material concerning the setting, about how involved I used to be about plastic air pollution, about local weather change, about the truth that my nation, the UK, I did not suppose, was doing sufficient to counteract.”