A billionaire with his neighbors is in the war after he bought a extensive estate for a “Grand Designs” plan – and a resident describes him as “vandalism”.
The locals fear that Chris Rokos' plans for the Tottenham House in Wiltshire in class I will be listed with greatly reduced water pressure.
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The 54 -year -old hedge fund owner bought the historic house, which was seen in Downton Abbey to transform it into a private residence.
But locals who live in the nearby Great Bedwyn on the edge of the 4,500 hectare estate, claim that he turns it into his own “Grand Designs” project.
Rokos plans to install 40 hectares of solar collectors and build a water lagoon in the North Park on the historic savenake estate near Marlborough.
The plans were presented to the Wiltshire County Council in October last year.
The program is part of the more comprehensive restoration of the Tottenham House, which was built in the 18th century and lived the home of the Earls of Ailesbury until 1946.
It is to be hoped that the development would deliver around a third of the estate's electricity requirements, while the lagoon would collect water in the winter months in summer.
The application claims that this would ensure “the long -term and sustainable future of Tottenham House and Estate by providing a” sustainable form of power and water “.
In a strongly formulated objection, the Great Bedwyn Parish Council said: “We have the current proposal against the concerns about the installation of the new water connection and the creation of a drainage lagoon and the containment.
“We ask the Wiltshire Council, by Thames Water, so that the installation of the new networks does not be disadvantageous in our community in terms of reducing water pressure or in fact, there will be no suitable water supply in our community.”
A spokesman for Rokos said that concerns about water pressure were “completely unfounded”.
They also said that the application was not available for a solar park, since the proposed panels would cover a small part of the country.
But angry households nearby have hit the program.
A local one claims that the old Eonian rides near the wishes of many people nearby.
The retired businessman Tim Brigstow, 71, said: “I admit that what he is doing with Tottenham House is worth it – after all, it went back in the terminal before he accepted it.
“But his plans for the country in North Park are nothing less than vandalism.
“It's blatant
“It is as if he plays along in his own program of Grand Designs and he has so much money that he can do practically everything.
“But there are problems that connect both aspects of his planning application.
“First, 40 hectares of solar collectors would look terribly out of place in the area, which is famous for the number of old trees worldwide.
I am locked up in the neighboring series about the tiny 'dwarf wall' on our border – they want to knock it down, but I will never let them
By Emily Davies
As a result, a businessman is over a tiny wall with the developers of a new housing estate, which is only two bricks high.
Roger White is firmly convinced that the “dwarf wall” at the border of the estate belongs to him and he refuses to put it down Lioncourt houses.
The 58-year-old says that the mini-wall in Hempsted, Gloucester, is on land in 1997, which he inherited from his father, but the developer said that the country where he works is “completely owned by Lioncourt Homes or in adopted highway land”.
However, the real estate developer insists that you have to put down the two-brick high structure in order to create an emergency access routes that is required in your building permit.
The worker Roger complained that they did not approach him to buy the country before starting work.
He claims that the country has a value of £ 10,000 in 2017.
In return, LionCourt Homes sent the local businessman in the planning saga a frequent letter to the local businessman.
They said he was “no entitlement to a ransom” above the tiny wall.
Roger told Gloucestershirelive that he “kept an eye on the country in the country” and about a month ago he noticed that the construction work was carried out, so he looked up the building permit online.
He noticed that it required an emergency access route due to potential floods, and said that it would “be in my country and obviously about my dwarf wall”.
He said, “I contacted Lioncourt Homes and said:” You don't notice that I own “and you came back and confirmed in writing that it was my dwarf wall.”
The BBC reported that LionCourt claims to have documents from 1964 to prove ownership of the wall.
Roger says he has paperwork from 1971, which shows that the wall belongs to him.
The IT worker said he was not against the development of 70 houses that are built.
But he said the company had to make sure that “everything is done correctly”.
He has the feeling that they want the wall “Bulldoze” and “want to continue with work”.
“It certainly feels like it is the big developer who is harassing a small businessman because they just seem to be relentless.”
A LionCourt Homes spokesman said: “Working that is necessary to implement our building permit are on the whole of LionCourt Homes or in adopted Autobahnland, no country of third -party providers is required.”
A spokesman for the Council Council of Gloucestershire said: “We believe that the legal border from LionCourt's Land is directly adjacent to Honeythorn Close. The legal limits have no physical width (regardless of the appearance of the physical border) and the motorway status has priority before, who has the soil.
“Therefore, the Council takes into account that the work to create the emergency vehicle access prescribed by planning can be legally implemented.”
“There are also concerns about water pressure in the surrounding areas and where the water comes to fill the lagoon.”
Another local who did not want to be named, said: “It is such a beautiful and historical landscape that the construction of thousands of solar collectors over a 40 hectare location would simply ruin it for everyone.
“We have people around the world to walk through the Savernake forest and they don't want to be confronted with a wall of solar collectors.
“There is a very picturesque school and a church next to the place where you want to build the solar arm, and the traffic that drives a single route during the construction will be unbearable.”
Solar panel 'intrusion'
In an online objection, others argued that solar modules on the historical website would be “penetrating”.
Mark Colquhoun said: “Development has revived a nationally important cultural heritage with a high standard for design, landscape restoration and attention to detail.
“However, the proposed installation of a floor in North Park is a considerable visual and historical penetration.
“Here the modern energy infrastructure undermines the character and readability of this protected environment.”
However, the program was supported by historical England, which emphasized the importance of maintaining the estate.
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One spokesman added: “Overall, historically England admits that the installation will cause minor damage to the total importance of the Saberke forest park and garden by introducing the modern infrastructure and the creation of a new water feature in the historical landscape.
“However, there will also be advantages in providing a renewable energy source on site and will reduce the carbon emissions associated with the operation of the estate.
“Therefore, we have no objection to this application in balance, and recognize that the damage against the advantages that you will enable the renovation and future preservation of Tottenham House Estate.”
The current Tottenham house was used as a preparatory school and as a center for young adults.
It was then sold to an American investment company that had built and resorted a golf course on the site.
In 2014, the house was sold to an unknown buyer for 11.25 million GBP who plans to turn it back into a private house. Then it was sold to the billionaire Rokos, who had similar plans.
In 2015, the house in the HIT TV series Downton Abbey, where Dryden Park, the rather dilapidated estate of Sir Michael Reresby, was supposed to be.
The sun turned to the Rockos company to get a comment.
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