Pursuits
Foxtons Founder to Build Mega-Basement After Court Case Win
- Home on `Billionaire's Row is next door to the French Embassy
- Hunt's subterranean plans include a pool, vintage car museum
Car museum floor level design.
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Foxtons Group Plc founder Jonathan Hunt can go ahead with plans to build one of London’s largest residential basements -- complete with a swimming pool and car museum -- after the French government lost a bid to block the massive project next to its embassy.
The ruling by a London court today paves the way for Hunt to complete construction at his home on Kensington Palace Gardens, a street known as “Billionaires Row.” The French government had sued the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, before the terrorist attacks in Paris, claiming the proposals compromised the security of the embassy.