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Britons join fight against 'illegal Renaissance palazzo' where parties are ruining the peace of Provence
To its moneyed guests, it is the ultimate Renaissance palazzo in the heart of the French Riviera, the perfect venue for billionaire weddings and the backdrop for high budget international TV series seeking a touch of Provencal class.
Nestling in green hills, olive groves and vineyards behind Grasse, France perfume capital, Chateau Diter looks to the untrained eye to be a timeless gem of Italian architecture in a protected nature reserve.
But the did not exist a decade ago and its British neighbours say the French owner has blighted their idyllic spot with his building frenzy, adding two helipads and three swimming pools to stage huge weddings and mega parties at mind bending decibel levels.
Now they, along with a group of appalled French locals, are trying to have it torn down.
British fund manager Stephen Butt and his French wife Caroline have filed criminal and administrative complaints for saying that planning and environmental laws have been blatantly flouted with apparent impunity, despite regular complaints to the Grasse town hall.
Employing a good dose of British understatement, Mr Butt told the Telegraph: objective and that of our neighbours is that the laws and the local environment be respected and, if necessary, enforced. That is not the case at present.
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Whatever its faults, the chateau is undeniably beautiful, boasting, as its website says, ornaments, old sculptures, stunning grounds and wonderful ornamental ponds, in an environment bathed in serenity
This and exclusive setting is, the site goes on, for romantic marriages and other events, with its stunning grounds surrounded by beautiful fountains, Roman columns and thematic stocked gardens big enough to welcome to 2,000 guests
Indeed today, the domain has become a much used venue for spectacular events for the rich and famous.
In 2013, it hosted a vast wedding reception for Kunal Grover, son of London based industrial tycoon Kimi Grover and his socialite wife Pamela to Ria Dubash, with many of Bollywood biggest names present.
Italian rugby international Mirco Bergamasco and a son of Richard Lepeu, head of Swiss luxury giant Richemont, which owns Cartier and Montblanc, also chose the chateau to host their lavish weddings.
It was recently privatised by a French American TV crew to shoot France based episodes of The Crossings, a crime series starring William Fichner and Donald Sutherland. Critics say it is a common blight along the Riviera where examples of planning rules being flouted are spoiling many beauty spots.
Stephen Butt Photo: Leon Neal/News Syndication I
n 2000, the Frenchman acquired 10 hectares of the domaine du Haut Couloubrier in the hamlet of Saint Jacques near Grasse for eight million francs (800,000). Four years later, he sold eight of them for 17 million francs (1.7 million) to Mr Butt, one of London wealthiest fund managers who this year paid himself 19 million in dividends from his company Silchester International Investors.
With the extra capital, Mr Diter started building.
first we were imitation bracelet cartier love on good terms, said Mrs Butt. helped each other out. I remember lodging one of his babysitters. But each time we came back from London, we noticed the presence of a new building a pavilion, a tower. We didn react straight away as we not that au fait with French rules bracelet cartier fake in this domain, she said.
But this was no mere row between wealthy neighbours. The Butts were soon joined by Anne Marie Sohn, a university professor from a family of Grasse perfumers, whose parents bought a modest (stone house) there 50 years ago. She realised something was amiss when workers damaged her wall and her insurer found no planning replica cartier bangle permission for it.
Jean Pierre Leleux, the then Right wing mayor of Grasse, initially ordered Mr Diter to stop the works, but later granted him retroactive planning permission for part of the building, leading to even more frenetic construction work.
After years of wrangling, in 2013, the Butts and Mrs Sohn finally filed a criminal complaint against Mr Diter, claiming that he fraudulently left out a swimming pool and another new imitation cartier love bracelet on sale building from his planning requests.
Georges Gutierrez, the Grasse prosecutor, has opened an inquiry, but progress is painfully slow.
Chateau Diter Photo: Google Maps
There have been notable exceptions: in August, Ines de la Fressange, the French fashion icon, was ordered to tear down a luxury house she has been building on a protected hill in Provence, amid claims she sought to her fame to bypass strict planning permission.
Mr Diter had another request for a minor change approved by the Grasse mayor, but Marseille judges later annulled another, saying that exponential extensions to a property could hardly be called cosmetic.popular replica cartier leve bangle nonrust steel
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To its moneyed guests, it is the ultimate Renaissance palazzo in the heart of the French Riviera, the perfect venue for billionaire weddings and the backdrop for high budget international TV series seeking a touch of Provencal class.
Nestling in green hills, olive groves and vineyards behind Grasse, France perfume capital, Chateau Diter looks to the untrained eye to be a timeless gem of Italian architecture in a protected nature reserve.
But the did not exist a decade ago and its British neighbours say the French owner has blighted their idyllic spot with his building frenzy, adding two helipads and three swimming pools to stage huge weddings and mega parties at mind bending decibel levels.
Now they, along with a group of appalled French locals, are trying to have it torn down.
British fund manager Stephen Butt and his French wife Caroline have filed criminal and administrative complaints for saying that planning and environmental laws have been blatantly flouted with apparent impunity, despite regular complaints to the Grasse town hall.
Employing a good dose of British understatement, Mr Butt told the Telegraph: objective and that of our neighbours is that the laws and the local environment be respected and, if necessary, enforced. That is not the case at present.
Provenal family recipes from the Fragonard perfumery
Whatever its faults, the chateau is undeniably beautiful, boasting, as its website says, ornaments, old sculptures, stunning grounds and wonderful ornamental ponds, in an environment bathed in serenity
This and exclusive setting is, the site goes on, for romantic marriages and other events, with its stunning grounds surrounded by beautiful fountains, Roman columns and thematic stocked gardens big enough to welcome to 2,000 guests
Indeed today, the domain has become a much used venue for spectacular events for the rich and famous.
In 2013, it hosted a vast wedding reception for Kunal Grover, son of London based industrial tycoon Kimi Grover and his socialite wife Pamela to Ria Dubash, with many of Bollywood biggest names present.
Italian rugby international Mirco Bergamasco and a son of Richard Lepeu, head of Swiss luxury giant Richemont, which owns Cartier and Montblanc, also chose the chateau to host their lavish weddings.
It was recently privatised by a French American TV crew to shoot France based episodes of The Crossings, a crime series starring William Fichner and Donald Sutherland. Critics say it is a common blight along the Riviera where examples of planning rules being flouted are spoiling many beauty spots.
Stephen Butt Photo: Leon Neal/News Syndication I
n 2000, the Frenchman acquired 10 hectares of the domaine du Haut Couloubrier in the hamlet of Saint Jacques near Grasse for eight million francs (800,000). Four years later, he sold eight of them for 17 million francs (1.7 million) to Mr Butt, one of London wealthiest fund managers who this year paid himself 19 million in dividends from his company Silchester International Investors.
With the extra capital, Mr Diter started building.
first we were imitation bracelet cartier love on good terms, said Mrs Butt. helped each other out. I remember lodging one of his babysitters. But each time we came back from London, we noticed the presence of a new building a pavilion, a tower. We didn react straight away as we not that au fait with French rules bracelet cartier fake in this domain, she said.
But this was no mere row between wealthy neighbours. The Butts were soon joined by Anne Marie Sohn, a university professor from a family of Grasse perfumers, whose parents bought a modest (stone house) there 50 years ago. She realised something was amiss when workers damaged her wall and her insurer found no planning replica cartier bangle permission for it.
Jean Pierre Leleux, the then Right wing mayor of Grasse, initially ordered Mr Diter to stop the works, but later granted him retroactive planning permission for part of the building, leading to even more frenetic construction work.
After years of wrangling, in 2013, the Butts and Mrs Sohn finally filed a criminal complaint against Mr Diter, claiming that he fraudulently left out a swimming pool and another new imitation cartier love bracelet on sale building from his planning requests.
Georges Gutierrez, the Grasse prosecutor, has opened an inquiry, but progress is painfully slow.
Chateau Diter Photo: Google Maps
There have been notable exceptions: in August, Ines de la Fressange, the French fashion icon, was ordered to tear down a luxury house she has been building on a protected hill in Provence, amid claims she sought to her fame to bypass strict planning permission.
Mr Diter had another request for a minor change approved by the Grasse mayor, but Marseille judges later annulled another, saying that exponential extensions to a property could hardly be called cosmetic.
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