Rita Ora is in hot water with her Camden neighbours over plans to build a huge gym in the garden of her £7.5m house.

The singer, 34, bought the Grade II listed property in Primrose Hill, North London, four years ago and now hopes to reconstruct the sunken garden which has been in place for nearly 150 years.

The plans stirred up anger from her neighbours, who dubbed it an eyesore, and shared concerns over how it might impact the garden's delicate ecosystem.

They teamed together in an appeal to Camden Council, writing: "Ironically, the current owner has gone on record to say they wanted to preserve and honour the heritage of this sunken garden which they say is a sanctuary for butterflies and is also a sanctuary for many birds, including robins, herons and even peacocks [that] have been sighted there over the years.

"To destroy the natural ecology in order to build a modern gym is entirely out of keeping with the heritage and calm of this particular listed property itself."

Their concerns even list an article the singer previously penned for Architectural Digest magazine, in which she boasted her love for her garden, saying: "Welcome to what I like to call my little piece of heaven... this is where the butterflies stay.

"I didn't want to put too much electrical stuff in this part because I really felt like the whole point of this sunken bit of garden is to be a garden," she said.

Ora's ticked-off neighbours have warned that building a gym will disturb the peace, causing sound and light pollution.

This isn't the singer's first clash about sound complaints - she previously fell out with locals at her two previous London properties. Her spokesperson has declined to comment.