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GRASSE — They call it "the Provençal permit," a local custom of sorts that involves building first and asking questions later. The logic is that once a construction is in place, authorities will feel more or less obliged to approve it retroactively. It is surprising how often that actually happens. ...
A gorgeous French Chateau located in the hills above the French Riviera has been ordered to be demolished after a 15-year court battle over the property finally came to an end. Patrick Diter bought a rundown 2,000-square-foot home on a huge parcel of land and started to expand on it. Chateau Diter, as he calls it, had been abandoned for years and regularly squatted in before he bought it. When Diter bought the property, a permit was obtained to put a small expansion onto the house. The problem is, Diter took it much further than that and over four years, the ramshackle 2,000-square-foot house...
A Millionaire Developer Was Ordered to Demolish His $66 Million French Château Isabel Garcia British real estate developer Patrick Diter is being ordered to demolish the $66 million château in France that he built without the necessary permits, Work on the 32,000-square-foot property, which the millionaire calls the Château Diter, started in 2005 at the site of what was a 2,000-square-foot property, according to the Daily Mail. In 2009, a group of upset neighbors took Diter to court to stop the massive reno. Six years later, an appeal court ordered the home to be demolishe...
British millionaire ordered to demolish his chateau in France after he 'forgot' to get building permit Feb 08, 2021, 04:40 PM facebook email French courts say the $64 million Chateau Diter was built without permission in a protected woodland area. VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images A British millionaire developer has been ordered to demolish his sprawling $64 million chateau by June 2022. The developer has been in a multi-year legal battle to keep the property, which the court said was illegally built and ignored zoning laws. The chateau, which can sleep up to 36 g...
British real estate developer Patrick Diter was ordered to demolish his illegally built French château after failing to get the proper permits and receiving complaints over the massive parties he throws on the property.