AUTHOR Polly Samson and rock star husband David Gilmour have been granted their wish to demolish a Victorian bath house and create a luxury family home.

Brighton and Hove City Council planning chairwoman Julie Cattell delivered the casting vote to grant the plans after the committee was spilt five in favour and five against.

Planning officers had advised members they were “minded to grant” plans to replace Medina House on Hove seafront with a 15-room house.

Councillors had raised concerns about the height of an extension that would block light out from neighbouring homes and whether the restoration of the original building was really economically unviable.

The celebrity couple bought the Kings Esplanade property just yards from their current seafront property in October 2015 for a seven-figure sum to create a home for their extended family of eight children.

The “architecturally-unusual” three storey building opened in 1894 as a laundry and women’s slipper baths but has been vacant since 1993.

It is the only surviving feature of Hove’s original seafront bath complex but despite intentions from its new owners, the building is deemed beyond repair.

The granted plans include a large open plan living, kitchen, dining room and hall, a study, library, snug, covered garden, gym and five bedrooms.