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The BBC faces eviction from the Fame Academy house - after local residents complained about constant noise.

Camden council is set to refuse a planning application by production company Endemol to film future series at its Highgate base, the Evening Standard reports.

A council report says Endemol has caused "irreversible damage" to historic Witanhurst, a Grade II* listed building.

During the first series in 2002, Endemol put up nine portable buildings, a TV studio and generators in front of the house - all without listed building consent.

Then neighbours began complaining about the noisy, smelly generators, helicopters flying overhead and amplified music being played late at night.

One local resident, barrister Mary Stokes, said the character of the area had been ruined during filming.

She said: "Fame Academy was an acute problem and a real nuisance. This is a lovely village-like area with a countryside feel, and yet the views from my house of Hampstead Heath were ruined by the clattering of generators and the smell of their diesel fumes."

When it all happened again last year for Fame Academy's second series, protesters went over officers' heads direct to members of the council's development control committee.

Endemol was instructed to submit a planning application, which was made in August and revised in October, asking the council to let it use Witanhurst until 2005.

But the council report says Fame Academy has changed the character of Highgate Village and the building itself and recommends the application is rejected.