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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.
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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 grew to 32,000 square feet. Diter also put in a pool, a lake, heliports – everything you could possibly want or wish for in a property. There was only one problem – he never got the right permit for all those additions. ....
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 demolished, with the exception of the original house. Over the years, neighbors have also had noise complaints, ....