Studio owner Nick Allen is taking his fight to save his disabled-friendly music studio all the way to the High Court, after a government inspector backed Wiltshire Council’s decision it must be demolished.

The multipurpose studio on Forewood Common in Holt, on opposite Mr Allen’s home, cost more than £160,000 to build and was designed so that disabled people could use its state-of-the-art music recording facilities.

Wheelchair user Mr Allen has been in the music industry for more than 30 years. He said: “It is one of the very few studios that caters for disabled users.

“I didn’t do it for money, I did it for my love of music and I thought it would be beneficial to people.”

Wiltshire Council decided that NAM Recording Studios breached planning application protocol after Mr Allen failed to apply for permission to change the use of the building from a B8 purpose to a B1 business use. His plan to convert a barn on the land for storage was approved in 2011, when the scheme was opposed by Holt Parish Council.

Mr Allen appealed against a council enforcement notice to the Planning Inspectorate. It has now upheld the council’s decision, and ruled that he must comply with the demand to demolish the building, including its foundations and floor slab, and restore the land back to its original form.

He has been given six months to comply but plans to appeal to the High Court.

Mr Allen has argued that the council did not take into consideration his studio’s benefits to both able-bodied and disabled users and believes the council has used his disability to rule against his plans.

He said: “What they are against is my studio impacting on the green belt and I have got over 1,300 signatures on an online petition about saving it. I’ve also received nearly 75 letters of support – none having any objections to my studio. I don’t know what it is with the council but they are against me and my music.”

He added that he was ‘largely unaware’ of the fact that planning permission was required to change the purpose of the building and believes that there are contradictions in the enforcement notice regarding the impact on green belt land.

He said: “I wasn’t trying to cover up what I was doing because I didn’t realise I was doing anything wrong.”

“I built the studio the way it is so that it fits in with the landscape.”