Neighbours go ballistic at apocalypse-obsessed millionaire's nuclear bunker plans | The Sun
AN apocalypse-obsessed millionaire has angered neighbours with her plans for a vast nuclear bunker under her mansion.
Lavinia Jacobs, 42, wants a 15-room fallout shelter with air-tight blastproof doors.
A planning application says: “The work involves the excavation, forming and casting of a reinforced concrete nuclear bunker basement.”
The shelter would include four bedrooms, a kitchen and storage rooms, a study and an access tunnel to her £10million property in Rye, East Sussex.
The project is set to cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and take months to complete.
Ms Jacobs — whose late father was Swiss chocolate mogul Klaus Jacobs — is believed to already have a nuclear bunker at another of her homes in Switzerland.
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The application relates to Grade II listed Leasam House — which was built in 1800 and is set in 57 acres.
It was submitted in June, after Vladimir Putin’s Russia troops invaded Ukraine and the threat of nuclear war increased. No decision has been made yet.
Janet Warren wrote on Rother district council’s website that potential damage to the house, garden and environment “far outweighs any doubtful useful purpose the development will have”.
One local told The Sun: “All the building equipment and transport needed to carry this out will go right by our front door.”
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Another said: “We never see Lavinia here.
"I suppose she must be worried what Putin is up to.
“I’m not sure he’ll have Rye in his sights though.”
Ms Jacobs was approached for comment yesterday.
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