What occurred to the Queen’s £7m horse property put up on the market by ex-England ace

Queen Elizabeth II’s £7million former horse property was put up on the market by a former England footballer who struggled to realize planning permission to enhance the location. Mick Channon, a Three Lions star of the Nineteen Seventies, purchased the complicated from the Queen in 1999 having made hundreds of thousands as a racehorse coach post-retirement. 

The gorgeous 63-acre complicated belonged to the previous monarch from 1982 to when Channon bought it 17 years later. It includes a gorgeous foremost complicated with six luxurious bedrooms. 

Also situated on the location are 5 three-bedroom indifferent bungalows, two separate cottages, and 4 flats. For the horses, there are 105 unfastened packing containers and 35 stalls. 

Channon wished to modernise the Berkshire complicated and finance it via the partial sale of a few of the property. However, planning permission failed and the location was put up for both a full sale or as six separate heaps. 

An advert with Knight Frank estimates the information value at a whopping £6,975,000. The advert reads: “A famous horse racing yard at the centre of which is a charming, immaculate country house with extensive stabling, cottages and office space set in 62.72 acres, previously owned by The Royal Family.”

Channon scored 21 instances for England and have become an iconic determine at Southampton through the seventies. But he then turned a profitable racehorse coach and purchased the complicated from the Queen. It will not be clear if a brand new purchaser has been discovered. 

He informed Racing Post final 12 months: “It’s on the market, we’ve tried for planning and been turned down. This is a lovely place but we need to improve it. We’re looking to develop part of it so we can make it an up-to-date, modern yard. That’s what our plans were but we’ve walked into a brick wall.

“We wished to construct some American-style barns. We’re unfold out over two or three acres, we’ve got yards everywhere and we have to promote to construct, you’ll be able to’t pluck cash out of the air.”