Richard Caring, the billionaire owner of the Ivy restaurants, is defying a council demand to remove three “incongruous” windows from his £40m mansion in South Kensington.
The Guardian reports that Caring has launched an appeal against the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s ruling that the windows were installed “without planning permission” and “fail to preserve the character and appearance” of the conservation area.
In the appeal, Caring’s wife said the windows were “well designed, being appropriately proportioned and detailed to accord with the general Victorian character of the wider conservation area”.
She also said the six-month period the council gave for the windows to be removed “falls short of what is reasonable”.
