Property developer John Hitchcox and his wife, Phoebe Vela, invite HELLO! into their waterfront dream house, where they count Kate Moss and Simon Le Bon as neighbours

John and Phoebe and their son, Marley, at the Lake House, their 12th home on the estate

CLOTHES: PINK VELVET SUIT, SUZANNAH LONDON. JOHN’S OUTFIT, LUCA FALONI. MARLEY’S OUTFIT, PEPA LONDON

Celebrities and the Cotswolds have long been a match made in heaven – just ask Sir David Beckham – but nowhere is this more apparent than at Lakes By Yoo, the luxury 850 acre 160 home private estate in Lechlade.

Once a disused quarry, it is now the destination for celebrities looking to escape to the country: prices start at £1.4m for a lakeside cabin and can reach £9m for a six bedroom villa, with each property surrounded by trees to ensure privacy.

Kate Moss holds her birthday party here every year, Jade Jagger, Take That’s Mark Owen and Simon and Yasmin Le Bon have long had second homes here, and both Jodie Kidd and David Gandy have taken cold water dips in one of its 11 lakes.

But it’s not just the location of Lakes By Yoo that keeps supermodel Kate and friends such as Sadie Frost and Meg Mathews coming back: it’s Kate’s beloved godson, eight year old Marley, son of Lakes By Yoo’s owner, developer John Hitchcox, and his wife Phoebe Vela Hitchcox, who is managing director.