Pop superstar Ed Sheeran, who spent nights sleeping rough on the streets of London early in his career, has won planning permission to install “anti-homeless” railings outside his £8m London home.

The 27-year old singer is now authorised to install pedestrian gates and cast iron railings outside his converted Victorian brickworks in Kensington and Chelsea, which will "prevent opportunities for rough sleeping" according to his planning agent.

It comes after planners rejected his application to build a flint and stone “ruined Saxon chapel” in the grounds of his Suffolk estate.

The London proposal, approved by Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council earlier this month, will also see a key fob system set into a Portland stone plinth outside the pop star's four storey home.

The plan was initially rejected as the four-foot-high railings were deemed to look "too domestic” for the former industrial area, but won approval after being amended to be more in keeping with the neighbourhood, which is in a conservation area.