Dua Lipa splashes out £10k on roof for BUTTERFLIES to live at her mansion after raking in almost £1m a week last year
DUA Lipa is spending a fortune to make her home more environmentally friendly.
The pop superstar, 28, is having a sedum roof laid on a new extension at her £6.75 London property in a bid to attract wildlife.
Dua‘s green-fingered feature will have four types of sedum, ornamental grasses and more than 40 perennial flowers like poppies and saxifrage. Gardeners will also weave in herbs.
Installation costs up to £10,000 and the makers reveal: “A wide variety of host plants and mellifluous plants have been selected especially for the Bees & Butterflies blanket, with different flowering periods ranging from early spring to late autumn.
“The mellifluous plants provide butterflies and bees with valuable nutrition. The host plants form an essential link as food for caterpillars in their development from eggs into butterflies.
“The Bees & Butterflies blanket contains no pesticides whatsoever, due to which they contribute to the reproduction and survival of bees and butterflies.”
The roof cover will also provide a habitat for birds and needs no watering but the chart-topper might have to scale the roof to perform some light weeding.
Due – now worth £100 million after her Glastonbury headline set – is a keen environmentalist.
Her album Radical Optimism was made from recycled vinyl and she is an advocate for using refillable bottles for cosmetics, perfumes, shower gels, and shampoos.
Work has only just started on her home after a two-year planning wrangle.
There was opposition to her 2021 proposals to add a pool, steam room, cinema, relaxation zone and a studio waiting area and lobby.
The plans proposed “the erection of a replacement single storey rear extension, enlargement of existing basement including formation of pool with associated mechanical plant.”
The local Neighbourhood Forum objected to the felling of a willow tree, which it said may have been planted to soak up water from an underground boundary stream.
And it warned against the rebuilding, or any potential harm, to boundary walls constructed from lava bricks (also known as clinker bricks), which it said are “a very important feature of the Conservation Area”.
The Sun recently revealed Dua raked in a whopping £141,000 per day last year from live shows and merchandise.
She had a £51.6million turnover at her company Radical 22 Live LLP in the 12 months ending March 31 2023.