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Planning row over billionaire Issa brothers' 'five ugly sisters' mansions

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Mansions being built by the billionaire owners of Asda were branded 'the five ugly sisters' in a complaint aired at a town hall planning committee meeting.

And a councillor called the Issa brothers' attitude towards planning rules 'a joke and a shambles' at the same meeting. A row over the EG Group owners' half-built identical homes in Billinge End Road area of Blackburn in Lancashire erupted at Blackburn with Darwen Council planning committee on Thursday night.

Mohsin and Zuber Issa's scheme to knock down eight houses and replace them with five new luxury residences caused uproar in 2018, with local residents strongly opposed to the development.

The Blackburn-headquartered company was started by the brothers, who built up their Euro Garages empire from scratch from a Bury petrol station and bought Asda in 2020 in a £6.8bn deal.

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