The owner of a vacant Grade I listed mansion that appeared in the film Batman Begins has hit back at a council in a row over completing bat surveys.<\/p>\n
Mentmore Towers, in rural Buckinghamshire, was served a listed-building repairs notice<\/a> in August, urging the owners to carry out a survey of the flying mammals and repair masonry.<\/p>\n However, a spokesman for the country house, owned by property tycoon Simon Halabi, said its “own Batman team has already been on the case” with surveys and ecological investigations.<\/p>\n Peter Strachan, deputy leader of Buckinghamshire Council, said the authority’s priority was protecting and preserving the “well-loved” building.<\/p>\n “We are also aware of works on-site that have been carried out without planning permission which we’ve looked into and are taking appropriate enforcement action on,” the Conservative councillor added.<\/p>\n Campaign group Save Britain’s Heritage said the local authority ordered Halabi to carry out urgent repairs to its deteriorating roof in the notice.<\/p>\n Mentmore Towers doubled as Wayne Manor in the 2005 superhero film<\/a> directed by Sir Christopher Nolan, and was once home to the Rothschild family<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owner of a vacant Grade I listed mansion that appeared in the film Batman Begins has hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}