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Inside Britain's most luxurious underground home | Times Reports

Residents of Cheshire’s affluent suburbs have long complained when developers blight the landscape with tasteless new-build mansions. Now one local property firm has solved the quandary of how to get planning permission without annoying the nimbys: a 4,000 sq ft trophy home, on the market for £4 million, that is buried almost entirely underground. Unlike other subterranean homes — usually eco-experiments set in rural isolation and burrowed into hillsides to provide views — Perdu is an urban, high-end hobbit home within walking distance of the bars and boutiques of Altrincham, a Premier League playground. It’s certainly fit for a footballer inside: there’s an open-plan living room of nearly 2,000 sq ft, a hydraulic car lift, a Bond-villain-style car showroom with glass walls opening onto the living area, a full-service bar and DJ booth, a hot tub and three bedroom suites (plans for a two-storey underground layout with a pool and giant chute were abandoned for cost and logistical reasons). Read more on this story: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/th... Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Find us on Facebook:   / timesandsundaytimes   Follow The Times on Twitter:   / thetimes   Follow The Sunday Times on Twitter:   / thesundaytimes   Find best pictures and news videos from The Times on Instagram:   / thetimes