Billionaire Crown Prince of Dubai enrages his Surrey neighbours by asking for permission to erect a 6ft-high ‘prison-style’ security fence around his £75m estate

A billionaire from Dubai has enraged his neighbours by asking for permission to erect a 6ft high security fence around his £75 million estate after putting it up.  

Crown Prince of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum put up the ‘prison boundary’ metal fence at his Surrey home last year, without planning permission.

He has now submitted a retrospective application for the towering gate and fence but furious neighbours say it is full of lies, including a declaration that work has yet to begin.

One critic claimed the ‘illegal’ construction involved ‘extensive’ tree cutting and was built despite bordering a site of special scientific interest.

Billionaire racecourse owner Sheikh Mohammed – who has more than 30 children – is ruler of Dubai and uses his Longcross Estate in Surrey to escape the summer heat.

His application will now be considered by Runnymede Council, which could approve the plans – or rule the huge fence must be torn down.

In an objection, neighbour Tom Barr said: ‘Regarding the application for planning permission, many false claims are made.

‘Firstly, the applicant claims a 1.8m fence height – yet it is in fact 2.2315 m high by the

applicant’s own dimensioned drawing.

‘Section 5 [of the application] has been falsely completed. The work / change of use is completed, yet the applicant claims it has not started.

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