3. If you have enough cash, you can pretty much do whatever you want to your house in London.
The local authority for Kensington & Chelsea has been granting planning permission left, right and centre for increasingly insane projects since about 2008.
Due to the fact that a basement is underground and no one has to see it, planning permission is pretty easy to get, so many insanely rich billionaires have decided that their three-storey Kensington mansion isn’t quite big enough and fancy building a bowling alley several feet underground.
Security is another major concern for anyone who has a million pound painting hanging in their living room. Panic rooms and bomb-proof shelters are just as common and cost an absolute fortune once they’re personalised to an oligarchs’ very individual tastes. It’s all possible in the Royal Borough if you file the right forms and have enough money.
