AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Owner of Batman's Wayne Manor fires back at council as bat survey dispute escalates
The owner of Mentmore Towers, the English mansion that doubled as Wayne Manor in the Batman films, is publicly challenging Buckinghamshire Council's demand for urgent repairs, calling the council's own enforcement actions counterproductive to preserving the historic estate. Simon Halabi, the 68-year-old Syrian-British property tycoon who bought the Grade I-listed mansion in 1999, pushed back […] The post Owner of Batman's Wayne Manor fires back at council as bat survey dispute escalates appeared first on American Almanac .
The owner of Mentmore Towers, the English mansion that doubled as Wayne Manor in the Batman films, is publicly challenging Buckinghamshire Council's demand for urgent repairs, calling the council's own enforcement actions counterproductive to preserving the historic estate. Simon Halabi, the 68-year-old Syrian-British property tycoon who bought the Grade I-listed mansion in 1999, pushed back through a spokesman after the council served a listed-building repairs notice ordering bat surveys and masonry work. The spokesman called the suggestion that nothing was being done at the property "false," insisting that ecological investigations and preparatory work were already underway. The dispute centers on one of England's most recognizable…Open