CCTV plans approved for George Clooney's Berkshire home

George Clooney bought the luxury property last October Credit: PA

Hollywood actor George Clooney has won permission to erect eight tall poles with CCTV cameras around his £10million mansion in Sonning Eye.

The Ocean's Eleven actor was delighted to see his controversial application to have the surveillance equipment installed approved.

The initial application sparked objections from residents of the Thameside village, who feared the cameras would violate their privacy.

The Grade II listed Aberlash House will be fitted with 10 cameras, and surrounded by eight wooden 18ft poles fitted with further security cameras.

Each camera will be housed in a protective vandal-resistant dome and could be tilted or panned to face in any direction, allowing Clooney and his barrister wife, Amal Alamuddin, to keep watch all around their property.

Aberlash House currently has a gym and steam room, a library, study, family room, formal dining room and cellar and a boat house. Credit: INS

The scheme was met with heavy criticism from residents and the local parish council.

Eye and Dunsden Parish Council objected to the plans, claiming that the wide range of cameras would represent a "potential infringement of the privacy of neighbouring properties."

It said the poles would be a "visual intrusion" into the village's conservation area, adding: "A more appropriate security system could be achieved by a greater number of inward-facing low-level cameras."