FSA's Sants in trouble over £3m house renovation-papers

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Hector Sants, CEO of the FSA, is under fire at home as well as the office after his £3m plans to renovate a Victorian property have been slammed by local residents, the Daily Mail reports.

Sants’ plans for his £2.4m home counties home include a lift, subterranean indoor swimming pool, gym, electronic gates, six bedrooms and nine bathrooms. However, the redesigns have been criticised for being ‘vulgar and extravagant’, according to the Daily Mail, with neighbours and the local Victorian society opposing the plans. One neighbour is quote by the mail as saying Sants, who earns £700,000 a year, should be working to save Britain’s economy instead of spending a fortune turning a historic house into a flashy palace. In his defence, Sants says he is restoring a wrecked house...

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