Take that! Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page wins planning dispute with neighbour Robbie Williams after singer withdraws renovation scheme for £17.5m central London mansion

Rock legend Jimmy Page appears to have won his planning stand-off with Robbie Williams after the former Take That star withdrew ambitious proposals to develop his mansion.

Williams, 41, wanted to build a huge subterranean extension to the sprawling west London home he bought from the late Michael Winner in 2013 for £17.5 million.

But the plans provoked an unhappy response from his neighbour, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, who has lived in Grade I listed Tower House next door since 1972.

Page seems to have won the neighbourly dispute after the architects Williams brought in to develop his home withdrew the proposals.

The move means that, unless new plans are submitted, Williams will have to keep living in 46-room Woodland House the way it is.

Robbie Williams wanted to extend his £17.5m Woodland House (left), which stands next door to rocker Jimmy Page's Grade I listed Tower House (right)

But Williams has withdrawn the plans after Page wrote an angry letter to the local council complaining 

Williams' property is one of the borough's best known homes thanks, in part, to its late former owner, the film director and food critic Michael Winner.

Williams first wanted to carry out a number of interior alterations to turn the Victorian mansion into a contemporary family pad.

He then submitted fresh plans for a two-storey, underground extension, measuring around 3,600sq/ft.

This is almost four times the size of the average new build in England and Wales and would have made up 11 per cent of the total accommodation.

In a strongly-worded letter to Kensington and Chelsea Council, submitted last month, Page expressed serious concern about how work could cause damage to the 'irreplaceable interior' of his home.

He said: 'Similar schemes have been carried out on other properties in the area locally and each time the level of vibration cause during the works has caused concern about the effect on decorative finished in The Tower House.

'The work now proposed to Woodland House is much nearer than other major excavations carried out so far and the consequences for the building fabric and decorative finished of The Tower House may well be catastrophic if this project is allowed to proceed.'

Williams lives at the home with his wife Ayda Field (left). Right: Page with his girlfriend Scarlett Sabet, 25

Pictures of Williams' home taken during Michael Winner's time there show high ceilings and old fireplaces

The home also included a swimming pool. Williams wanted to build a new one in an underground extension

Page's concerns were supported by a report carried out by historical building consultants Andrew Townsend Architects.

Mr Townsend, who has been practising as an architect for nearly 30 years, described The Tower House as 'one of the most important houses built in this country in the nineteenth century'.

He said there would be 'serious and very real concern' that vibrations will be transferred to the building fabric of The Tower House during the proposed works.

This would create 'the potential for damage to the fabric of the house and especially to the decorative finishes in the rooms on the east side of the house', he added.

The row escalated last month when Page hired two architectural experts to back his opinion that Tower House is so historically important it should be protected from any nearby development.

Director Winner, who died in 2013, had a huge home cinema built into the house, which Williams now owns

Page was upset that building work in Williams' garden would cause disruption to the neighbourhood

Another neighbour objected while one critic of the plans sent an objection letter to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea from Melbourne.

It is not the first time Williams, who is married to Ayda Field, has had a high profile property setback.

In 2009, the singer paid £8.1 million for Compton Bassett House, which is regarded as one of Wiltshire's grandest privately owned properties.

However, four-years later it was back on the market and failed to sell despite a £5.5 million price-tag.

The architects behind the planned project, Harper Downie, declined to comment on the latest development, as did a spokesman for Williams.