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Claudia Schiffer takes council to court in bitter planning row with neighbour NewsColony Claudia Schiffer and her film director husband Matthew Vaughn have taken their local council to court after they approved their neighbours controversial home extension plans. The celebrity couple have been trying to stop Hans Pilo building a modern extension near their Grade I listed £5million manor home, south of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Ms Pilo, understood to be a relative of multi-millionaire Jens Pilo, who used to own the estate before Schiffer and Vaughn, lodged plans in May. She wants to bulldoze her existing outbuildings and double the size of the house by fitting a two-storey extension. Claudia Schiffer and her film director husband Matthew Vaughn (pictured together last year) have taken their local council to court The celebrity couple have been trying to stop Hans Pilo building a modern extension to Coldham Hall Cottage (right) near their Grade I listed £5million manor ...