Proposals to replace Hampstead’s Athlone House with eight-bedroom home for Kuwaiti family scrapped after 5000 objections,including from Terry GilliamDesigns for the latest London mega-mansion for billionaire owners beget been rejected after a six-year planning battle because of their “palatial scale” and the substantial harm they would cause to London’s heritage, following a campaign backed by former Monty Python star Terry Gilliam. The planned eight-bedroom mansion in Hampstead, or north London,was believed to beget been for the Kuwaiti multibillionaire Kharafi family. It was to include a ballroom, an indoor swimming pool and a car lift to a underground garage designed to accommodate four £260000 Maybach limousines.
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Source: theguardian.com