Fury at palace basement plan

MY REVELATION about plans to dig an ‘iceberg’ mega-basement in the grounds of Kensington Palace have enraged the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s neighbours.

Furious Kensington residents say Historic Royal Palaces plans for a 50 metre-long basement underneath the Grade I-listed Orangery are ‘ shoddy’ and that there is ‘ no justification for a double basement’.

Usually, two-storey basements are banned in Kensington & Chelsea, but forelock-tugging council planners have indicated they are prepared to make an ‘exception’ at Kensington Palace. Donald Cameron, a retired communications CEO, says the double standards are ‘bogus’.

‘The planning department seems to have been bedazzled by courtiers when giving pre-application advice,’ he writes in an objection letter.

A decision is expected at the end of April.