Amassing £20 million by the time you’re 21 can seem like a passport to a life free of tension and conflict. But Harry Potter star Rupert Grint may disagree – although, at 35, his fortune has reportedly risen to more than £40million.
Stricken by kidney stones two years ago (which were eventually neutralized by laser shots and the insertion of a stent in a very sensitive spot), he has also developed what he describes as a “huge fear” of bees, which is all. a problem, given that keeping bees is one of their hobbies. And now, I can reveal, his plans for Kimpton Grange, the 18th-century property in Hertfordshire which he bought for £5.4 million in 2009 but in which he never lived, have been inundated with ridicule from the Authority. Local floods.
In a scathing assessment, he says Grint’s proposals “are likely to increase the risk of flooding,” adds that three “infiltration” tests were not completed and notes that he did not provide “sufficient information” about “watercourses that could be used for discharge of surface waters.
Harry Potter star Rupert Grint’s fortune has reportedly risen to more than £40million.
Plans for Kimpton Grange, the 18th century property in Hertfordshire which he acquired for £5.4 million in 2009 but never lived in, have been inundated with ridicule from the local Flood Authority.
The Flood Authority says, objecting to the plan, that it has not provided “any information” about the possibility of “connecting to a surface water sewer or road drain.”
But that’s just for starters. Grint, who has a three-year-old daughter with his girlfriend Georgia Groome, has bold plans for the 23-acre site, which includes a lake, walled and landscaped gardens, a staff apartment, two cabins and an outdoor pool with his own pavilion. , a floodlit tennis court and a variety of outbuildings.
Grint plans to convert a single house, The Lodge, into six apartments and also build four semi-detached homes and five detached homes.
The problem is, the Flood Authority says, objecting to the plan, that it has not provided “any information” about the possibility of “connecting to a surface water sewer or road drain” or why the “reuse of flood water” rain” not mentioned. “Sewer connections are usually not agreed in principle,” the authority adds, explaining that exceptions can only be made when “no other drainage method is possible” and when “it does not increase flooding elsewhere.”
JK Rowling has had vehement disagreements with Grint and her co-stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. But maybe she’ll back up something he said last year. “It can be cathartic,” she reflected, “to see terrible things happen to other people.”
