A FORMER Playboy model who breeds and sells bunnies at her Worcestershire home has been ordered to "hop it" by councillors.

Mother of 10 Annette Edwards has been served with an enforcement notice by Wychavon District Council, ordering her to stop running "Bunnyland" from her home in Pershore Road, Stoulton, near Worcester.

The council claims Mrs Edwards - who raised more than a few eyebrows when she posed naked with her 20-year-old daughter Jody in the world-famous Playboy magazine - is breaching regulations because she failed to obtain planning permission before launching the business.

The ex-model posed for Playboy - the organisation which invented bunny girls and has a bunny logo - in 1998, joining the ranks of older women, such as Joan Collins, who have posed for the American magazine when middle-aged.

Mrs Edwards sold her home in Bromsgrove and moved into Stoulton in January in order to breed rabbits, sell hutches and offer boarding facilities to pet owners.

But the move has fallen foul of planning chiefs who want the business shut down.

In the enforcement notice, the council says: "The boarding, breeding, keeping of rabbits for sale and the sale of rabbits and pet accessories and feedstuffs are carried out on a commercial basis and are beyond what could reasonably be considered as ancillary to the residential use of the land."

Lisa Peakman-Short, planning solicitor for Wychavon District Council, said the enforcement notice was issued because she was running a business from her home.

"She was breeding rabbits for sale and that wasn't acceptable in planning terms - she had not been granted planning permission for what she was doing," she said.

The council also claims access and exit arrangements to the cottage are insufficient to cope with the extra traffic. She was given 21 days to comply with the enforcement notice, which is dated Monday, August 25.

However, Mrs Edwards has now lodged an appeal against the order.

Her solicitors have now written to the Bristol-based Planning Inspectorate asking for the deadline to be extended to three months.

They say she did not realise she needed planning permission and she now intends to relocate the sales side of the business and to discontinue commercial boarding and breeding of rabbits for sale at the land.

"She is in the process of acquiring shop premises but will need at least three months to complete the acquisition and relocate her equipment and stock," her solicitor said.

A spokesman for the Planning Inspectorate said an inspector will now look at the grounds for the enforcement notice and will make a decision in about six weeks' time.