Desperate homeowners say their houses have become unsellable after a multi-millionaire caravan-tycoon bought and bulldozed a local field and filled it with second hand cars and scrap. 

Locals living along Eton Wick Road, close to the prestigious Eton School, say their lives have been made a misery since the field was snapped up by multi-millionaire residential park owner Fred Doe Senior. 

In 2020, Doe, a member of the travelling community, outbid Eton School for the small patch of land paying a staggering £783,000 for the privilege. 

Since then, residents say they have watched in horror as trees have been felled and the field has been slowly industrialised piece by piece, and they fear that each new shipping container or pile of scrap is taking chunks out of the value of their houses. 

Google satellite images of the site prior to Doe’s ownership show rolling green fields and trees however drone pictures taken by the MailOnline today paint a different picture. 

The landscape is now scarred by craters and pools of stagnant water and hundreds of cars and pieces of scrap metal. The trees have also been felled and replaced with a horde of shipping containers. 

In the center of the field is a broken caravan left exposed to the elements. 

According to public records Mr Doe has only submitted three planning application to Windsor and Maidenhead Council despite the dramatic change in the use of the land in that time. 

Desperate homeowners say their houses have become unsellable after a multi-millionaire caravan-tycoon bought and bulldozed a local field

Multi-millionaire residential park owner ‘Fred’ Doe Senior, pictured with a luxury car,  purchased the field in 2020 for over £700,000

Google satellite images of the site prior to Doe’s ownership show rolling green fields and trees

However drone pictures taken by the MailOnline this week paint a different picture

Residents say they have watched in horror as trees have been felled and the field has been slowly industrialised piece by piece

In the center of the field is a broken caravan left exposed to the elements

That application, the laying of hard standing for open storage was submitted retrospectively and refused in February. But despite this, drone pictures taken this week show the land is still being used to park dozens of cars. 

Windsor and Maidenhead Council told MailOnline that Mr Doe is currently the subject of three enforcement investigations regarding the felling of trees and placement of shipping containers on his land. 

One of these, which is currently being appealed, relates to ‘the material change of use of the land to a mixed use comprising car repairs, storage of vehicle parts, storage of shipping containers, storage and parking of vehicles.’ 

The council states that two further planning applications for the site made by Mr Doe are at the validation stage.  

Residents living next to the site say they feel the council is too intimated to clamp down on the rule breaking despite the affect it is having on the area. 

Speaking to MailOnline under condition of anonymity, one resident said: ‘We all know it’s not right. How can it be? 

‘But they get away with it and the council are either too scared to stop it or don’t want the aggravation. At the end of the day it’s us who suffer having to live next to that tip.’ 

Another resident, who gave his name as Robert, said that the acquisition by the Doe’s had irreparably changed the area. 

He said: ‘I’ve been here since 1991 and the difference from then till now is unbelievable. It was an orchard once and now its a scrap yard. 

‘They bought it in 2020 and the destroyed it with a digger. And then suddenly there’s loads of huge shipping containers there and hundreds of cars. It’s like we’re living next to an airport car park. 

‘Everyone around here has emailed the council to complain and they’ve done nothing. They’re scared of him. 

‘It’s killed the prices of all the houses around here. They’re all unsellable. People take one look at that field and turn away.’ 

Despite being refused retrospective planning permission drone pictures taken this week show the land is still being used to park dozens of cars

Residents living next to the site say they feel the council is too intimated to clamp down

There are fears that if no enforcement occurs the problems at the site could worsen

When MailOnline visited Mr Doe’s field we were told that the cars on the site were second-hand

When MailOnline visited Mr Doe’s field we were told that the cars on the site were second-hand and for sale through a company called Eton Wick Cars, a company that did not appear to be registered to companies house. 

Number plate searches of many of cars in the plot indicated they were untaxed and several were clearly damaged. 

Speaking to MailOnline, a local estate agent from Windsor claimed the site had killed the area’s housing market. 

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They explained: ‘He’s ruined the area. It’s affected all the house prices around here, people just can’t sell them. He bought the land at auction and bought it way over market value. 

‘For a while nothing happened with the the site and then he began putting up fences. We assumed he was preparing it to be a caravan park like his others, but then a few years on Bonfire Night, all the trees on the site were chopped down.  

‘It was an inferno. Nothing was ever done about it, and now the site is filled with broken cars and shipping containers. Nobody is really sure what they are doing with the cars. 

‘The council should be enforcing this but they are frightened of him, nobody wants to challenge him.’ 

The culture of silence and whispers that has spread up around the field is best explained in context. 

Although he has always denied it, Doe Senior has been linked to the Kinahan cartel, one of the world’s most fearsome crime syndicates. 

Though he presents himself as a man of simple tastes living by ‘his traveller roots’ in a mobile home in one of his parks (albeit a very luxurious one close to Windsor Castle), by most people’s standards Doe’s life is extremely lavish.

Posts on his X feed shows him cruising through Belgravia in a £400,000 Rolls-Royce Cullinan, golfing with stars such as Gary Player, and taking high tea with Elaine at the Dorchester hotel. 

Certainly, Mr Doe has a colourful past. Almost a decade ago, a dramatic dawn raid was staged at his own luxury estate.

Doe Senior was then known as Maurice Sines and resided in a mansion at Wentworth, Surrey, the golf resort where celebrities such as Sir Elton John and the late Bruce Forsyth once lived.

He told the Mail how armed police burst into his home while he and his wife Elaine were sleeping and ‘pointed their guns at my head’, suspecting the fortune he has amassed from a residential park empire stretching from Norfolk to Dorset had been augmented by criminality.

‘Fred’ Doe Senior, previously known as Maurice Sines, with his wife Elaine at the Dorchester Hotel in London

‘Fred’ Doe Senior with a collection of luxury cars, including a Rolls-Royce, outside his house

At the heart of this accusation, which Doe Senior strongly denies, was his alleged link to the Kinahan gang. 

He says his assets, including his fleets of luxury and historic cars, and a jewellery collection to rival that of the V&A, were frozen for five years after the police swoop.

During that time, he lived off a court-approved allowance and he says it was only after winning a £50 million forfeiture case, nine years ago, that he could resume the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed.

In 2022, the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau identified the tycoon as being ‘linked’ to the Kinahans UK branch. 

Police believe it was due to this link that the then Maurice Sines changed his name to Fred Doe to avoid being targeted by the UK’s National Crime Agency. 

A Windsor and Maidenhead Council spokesperson, said: ‘We understand the concerns of residents and are actively investigating a number of potential planning breaches at this site, ahead of any necessary enforcement action.’ 

MailOnline has approached Fred Doe Senior for comment.