My reality TV star neighbour’s noisy home keeps me up at night – there’s ‘constant growling and droning’

REALITY TV prima Dr Ann Kaplan Mulholland has been accused of "destroying the peace" astatine her castle location successful Kent by furious neighbours.

The complaints began aft the Real Housewives of Toronto favourite and her hubby Dr. Stephen Mulholland installed a "constant growling generator".

Ian Brown, 80, who lives adjacent Lymphne Castle successful Hythe, said the multimillionaire owners person "ruined his peaceful garden" with the noise.

The mates purchased the stunning £5.5million property successful 2023 and present rent it retired for luxury weddings.

In August 2024 they re-opened the castle's bistro they renamed The Naughty Dog.

They installed a diesel generator down a chromatic partition astatine the property, which a spokesperson has said volition beryllium replaced by a caller electrical substation this spring.

Despite claims that it is simply a "silent generator", Mr. Brown says helium has to support his windows closed to debar the "constant droning".

The pensioner, who has lived successful Lympne for 9 years, told Kent Online: "The machine’s growling exhaust sound has destroyed the peaceful conditions successful my plot and prevents oregon disturbs sleep unless windows are kept closed."

He argued that determination was "no notice" astir the generator installation, which helium added was "incredibly irritating".

Folkstone and Hythe District Council approved a retrospective exertion works for The Naughty Dog, which included modernising the tract for a caller professional kitchen.

However, different resident, Lynn Frank, was frustrated that the planning permission had not been secured earlier the enactment started.

She wrote connected the council's readying portal: "This is 1 of galore applications that should person been enactment successful for the extended works.

“The proprietor of the castle was good alert of readying support rules. This enactment was done successful blatant disregard for the assembly readying permissions,” she added.

Council officers responded to the objections and replied: “While it is regrettable that planning permission wasn’t unafraid pre-commencement, the information the exertion is retrospective is not a worldly readying consideration.

“The contiguous neighbour has objected due to the fact that of sound and disturbance from a generator. The objection is understood, but this is not portion of the existent application.

“Officers person informed the cause that support volition beryllium required if the generator is to stay and that sound and acoustic shielding volition request to beryllium considered.”

Defending the couple, a spokesperson for Lympne Castle said: "In presumption of the alleged ‘noise’: From the resident’s home, the generator measures conscionable 38 decibels. 

"To enactment this into context, humans speak above 55 decibels and birds chirp astatine 66 decibels, truthful the level is minimal. 

"Furthermore, the soundless generator is switched disconnected astatine 6pm each time truthful would not disturb residents sleeping astatine night.

"Lympne castle continues to admit the assemblage and the enactment that is provided.

"We anticipation that Mr Brown, arsenic a valued subordinate of the community, tin clasp the tone and we invited him to our nationalist events and venues. "

Ann, 63, and her integrative surgeon husband, 63, besides invited a film unit to papers their immense castle renovations.

First erected successful the 1080s, Lympne Castle was the residence of the Archdeacon of Canterbury until 1860, and it has stunning views looking retired implicit the Kent countryside, and arsenic acold retired arsenic Calais, France. 

The 139-acre castle is conscionable 1 of 11 properties Ann and her integrative surgeon hubby Stephen ain each implicit the world, including 3 homes successful Hawaii, 5 successful Canada and a 17,000 sq ft penthouse successful Las Vegas, which outgo $18 million, and has a 360-degree presumption of the Las Vegas Strip.

She says: “Some radical cod things. We cod pieces of art and the pieces of creation are our houses. So each spot is unsocial and beautiful.”

Ann's beingness hasn't ever been 23-carat engagement rings and Schiaparelli shoes worthy astir £4,000 - she was erstwhile a broke, azygous mum-of-two.

She and their 2 young children were abandoned successful Toronto by her archetypal hubby erstwhile she was 30 years old.

She past single-handedly built up her aesculapian loans business iFinance, which grew to go 1 of the biggest of its benignant – and contiguous she is worthy a chill £500 cardinal aft selling it successful 2022.

Ann met her 2nd hubby Stephen through her career, and ended up having 2 much children with him, arsenic good arsenic taking his 2 older children from a erstwhile narration connected arsenic her own.

“We ended up with a merger, acquisition and start-up,” she laughs. “And that was hectic, raising six children together.”