London rejects Qatari palace construction plans
The Westminster Council has rejected plans by Qatar’s royal family to build a lavish palace in London, said to be worth £200 million.
Matthew Rees, planning officer at Westminster city council, said on Thursday that the Qatari family’s plans to build a 17-bedroom British palace had been turned down.
Rees said the plans had been rejected due to a shortage of homes.
“Your development would lead to the loss of a housing unit which would not meet S14 of Westminster’s City Plan: Strategic Policies adopted November 2013,” Rees said in an official memo written to the Qatari family’s agents. “Negotiation could not overcome the reasons for refusal.”
Under the plan, the palace would have been built in the city of Westminster’s Cornwall Terrace.
It would have included 17 bedrooms, 14 lounges, four dining rooms, a swimming pool, a cigar lounge, a cinema, and a juice bar.
This comes shortly after the family purchased London’s major business district, the Canary Wharf, for £2.6 billion.
The leader of the Labour group at the Conservative-controlled authority, Paul Dimoldenberg, slammed the recent trend of Persian Gulf billionaires buying property in the United Kingdom.
“There is no need for more multimillion-pound houses. The issue isn’t finding homes for the Qatar royal family or any other monarchy. We need to find homes for people on medium and low incomes,” Dimoldenberg said.
The Qatari royal family also has shares in the Harrods upmarket department store and the Shard skyscraper in London.
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