The ex-wife of snooker legend Stephen Hendry has been hit with more than 100 objections after forging on with plans to build a string of properties around their former marital home.
Amanda Hendry still owns the Perthshire house she shared with the seven-time world champ before he moved out to be with his girlfriend and the mum of two has been trying to sell it for more than four years.
Now the 52-year-old fashion boutique owner has reignited plans she began with her ex-husband more than a decade ago to build homes on the plot in rural Auchterarder.
They have been met with a barrage of objections from neighbours – with one local saying the applications show a “disregard for the wider community”.
Amanda and Hendry moved into the detached home Norwood in 1996 and carried out extensive renovations to the five-bed property, which is set within four acres of land.
The couple first launched a bid to build homes in 2008 when they won planning for two houses, renewing it when it expired in 2011.
But in 2014, Hendry called time on his 19-year marriage and moved to Berkshire with children’s entertainer Lauren Thundow, who is 20 years his junior.
Norwood and an attached horse riding arena was put on the market for £1.2million in 2016 but failed to sell.
At the time, sources told the Sunday Mail that parts of the land had attracted interest from developers but Amanda was understood to only be interested in selling the house and plot together.
Hendry lodged paperwork in 2018 to transfer ownership to Amanda.
But the house is still on the market, now without the arena, for offers over £895,000. Amanda was granted permission for a house and garage next to her home and further permission for stables.
But she vastly expanded her plans last month with applications for planning in principle for four more new houses.
Paperwork states she isn’t the sole owner of the land to which applications apply.
The deadline for written comments closed last week and 132 objections had been made to Perth and Kinross Council.
Locals complain about the access plan for the homes, saying it would interfere with a “historic” core path used by families, while others say the area already has too many new homes.
One neighbour said developers within the area were “hell-bent on making profits” and “do not consider the environmental and social impacts this will have on the community”.
Another objection letter said: “This creates increased housing that is surplus to what the area requires.”
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A decision will be made by planning chiefs in the coming months.
Amanda Hendry declined to comment.
