The gym features eight fitness machines including recumbent bike, rower and treadmill. At the other end is a small putting green.

For kids there’s a bark-covered playground with a pink wendy house, climbing frame, double swing, see-saw and spring-loaded rocking horse to keep children occupied.

And in the middle of it all, a patch of turf barely large enough to turn a few cartwheels.

However, Gerrard’s decision to refurbish his ground triggered outrage among neighbours.

One said: ‘As much as we hold Mr Gerrard in high esteem as a player we just wish he hadn’t felt the need to go so overboard on his garden. The rest of us settle for nice lawns and trees and a few flower beds. This guy seems to have built his own playground.”

According to the Daily Mail report Gerrard had originally been granted planning permission in October 2007 for the ‘detached two-storey building to be used as a garden pavilion and gymnasium with games room’.

But Neighbours complained the gym looked like an ‘Asda supermarket in a beauty spot’.

However, Gerrard won over planners by offering to instal a living ’sedum roof’, which includes grass, moss and other plants and helps cut fuel bills by keeping the building warmer in the winter.

A Liverpool insider said: “Steve and Alex are obviously very sorry if neighbours have been upset or are inconvenienced by the building work. The last thing they want is for the neighbours to be unhappy. But this will be their dream home for life.”

[Source: The Daily Mail]

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