'New 007' Aaron Taylor-Johnson is locked in a row with his local council after excavating lake at his 16th century farmhouse without permission. Can you get yourself out of this hole, Mr Bond?

Aaron Taylor-Johnson will have to tackle death defying stunts while fighting criminal masterminds if he takes up a reported offer to become the next James Bond. But the Brit actor and his film director wife Sam Taylor-Johnson are first trying to dig themselves out of a real life hole with their local council over unauthorised works on their country estate. Sam Taylor-Johnson and her actor husband Aaron have left villagers seeing red after starting to dig a lake – without planning permission They have agreed to submit a retrospective planning application if they wish to continue with the circular, gaping hole, which covers roughly an acre and is up to three metres deep Taylor-Johnson, 33, who was reported by The Sun to have been 'formally offered the opportunity to play James Bond' and his 56-year-old wife faced an enforcement inquiry in June last year after complaints about the project. Taylor-Johnson and his wife who directed Fifty Shades of Grey and whose Amy Winehouse biopic is out in April have now applied for retrospective permission for the work The couple insist that the two areas of water are actually wildlife ponds and are needed as a measure to prevent flooding of their five bedroom 16th century home in the Mendip Hills, Somerset. Social media is split on whether Taylor-Johnson has the chops to step into 007's shoes after a run of action films including Bullet Train Aaron Taylor-Johnson is on the verge of signing a deal to become the next James Bond, according to reports It says: 'The owners are undertaking a project to create new wetland features to alleviate severe flooding to the house and to enhance biodiversity.