Holiday home for Mr Doodle draws criticism from council and residents

Dungeness on the Kent coast has long championed pioneering architecture, welcoming the distinctive black and yellow home of the artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman. But a proposal for a house clad in the rusty scrawls of the multimillionaire artist Mr Doodle has tested the open-mindedness of its residents - and failed to win over the parish council.

- Emily Dugan

Mr Doodle, whose real name is Sam Cox, lives in Doodle House, a six-bedroom home in Tenterden, also in Kent, which is covered inside and out in his trademark monochrome squiggles.

The design was described by the Guardian as "like stepping inside a migraine". But the proposals for his holiday home in Dungeness are significantly more discreet.

The architect Guy Hollaway is behind the Log Cabin, a proposal to replace an existing "fairly unremarkable white boarded house" with a metal-clad structure that restores two railway carriages within it.

Hollaway said the distinctive seaside home had been designed to be respectful of surrounding buildings and nature. Mr Doodle's drawings will be laser-cut in rusting metal, which will be overlaid on the structure.

The parish council has been vocal in its criticism and some residents are also said to have dismissed the design as a "vanity project".