The former home of legendary artist George Michael, built in 1970, is to be demolished and turned into a £10m property after falling into disrepair, according to Daily Mail Online.
The British star, who died in 2016 aged 53, bought his home in north London in 1987 at the height of his career and lived there for many years.
The mansion fell into disrepair after George moved out of the estate to spend more time at his other home in London and his country estate in Berkshire.
The home ended up in the care of George's sister, Yioda Panayiotou, who has now been given permission by Camden Council to demolish it, with architects BB Partnership promising to make the dilapidated house “livable“.
According to planning documents obtained by The Sun, the old roof will be completely ripped off and replaced with a new one fitted with solar panels.
George Michael in Last Christmas music video. PHOTO Capture YouTube
The project also provides for the conversion of an adjacent garage into a home, the addition of new doors and windows, and the installation of terraces at the back of the house.
The current cement tiles will be replaced with a more modern and aesthetic white laminated board.
Two independent garages could be converted into a higher version, it is not excluded that George Michael's sister herself will move here.
Scaffolding has been erected around the property. When the work is completed, the property could be worth more than £10 million.
Built in 1970, following a futuristic design for that time
Built in the mid-1970s to a futuristic design, George's home was ransacked in his absence in 2002, when thieves stole jewellery, designer clothes and paintings, as well as family items bequeathed to the Wham! star. by his mother, who died of cancer in 1997. The thieves also made off with an Aston Martin DB7.
In the last decade of his life, the artist spent much more time in a classic Georgian house in north London and his 16th-century home in Oxfordshire, where he was found dead on Christmas Day 2016 .
Three years apart, his younger sister Melanie also died, leaving Yioda as the only surviving sibling.
In 2019, George's Oxfordshire property was finally sold, with the Land Registry reporting that a family new to the area had bought the country house.
