A property tycoon is locked in a bitter planning battle with council officials over his bid to transform the grand former home of W.S. Gilbert into a sprawling family mega-mansion.
Private equity boss James Woolf bought the grand 1880 residence – built for the famed Gilbert and Sullivan dramatist – for £7.1million in 2023, hoping to bring the historic property into the 21st century.
But the vast 12,000 sq ft house in affluent South Kensington – long seen as
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