Palumbo plan angers neighbour

PETER Palumbo could be forgiven for thinking back ruefully to the glory days when he owned ten magnificent properties, including bagnor manor in berkshire, where he gave sanctuary to his close friend Princess Diana after she separated from Prince Charles.

Now 83 and living in the £4 million townhouse he shares with his second wife Hayat, 69, property developer and art collector lord Palumbo is embroiled in a dispute with locals in Chelsea.

His neighbour objects to the peer’s new proposal to add a two- storey extension to the back of his property.

This ‘will cause significant light reduction into our kitchen on the ground floor’, the neighbour claims. Palumbo insists the extension will not affect ‘neighbouring properties’.