Film moguls plan refurb of Ozzy Osbourne mansion

Beel House was Osbourne's family home in the 1980s

Russian film moguls are planning to refurbish a "decaying" mansion that used to be owned by Ozzy Osbourne.

The heavy metal star and his family moved to Beel House in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, in the 1980s.

Empty since 2013, a survey carried out when it sold for a reported £4.3m in 2021 found mould and damp.

Planners have given the current owners, Sergei Oleg Yershov and Olga Romanov, permission to restore it.

Beel House may date back to Tudor times and was once owned by the Duke of Buckingham

They are both directors of film distribution company VLG.FILM, and want to bring Beel House back into use as a home, according to planning documents.

Set in 13.5 acres, the Grade II listed Georgian mansion has eight bedrooms, four bathrooms, a library, swimming pool, tennis court, croquet lawn, games room and a deer park.

Osbourne, 75, and his wife Sharon, a former judge on TV talent show the X Factor, are not the only celebrities to have lived there. Film star Sir Dirk Bogarde bought the house in 1954.

Work would include overhauling the main house and service wing, as well as demolishing and replacing a pool house, guest wing and conservatory.

The plans were approved in July 2023, but the owners have asked Buckinghamshire Council for permission to make "minor aesthetic alterations" to the conservatory.

The planning documents stated that "lack of maintenance by the previous owners" had left the property in "its present state of decay".