Billionaire closes main road in South Kensington for gardening work

Ivy owner Richard Caring wins council permission to close part of Onslow Square, a busy ambulance and bus route, for two weeks

Richard Caring, the billionaire owner of the celebrity hotspot restaurant the Ivy and private members' club Annabel's, has won permission to close a main road in South Kensington, central London, in order to have dozens of trees planted in the grounds of his 40m mansion.

Caring, who has built up an estimated personal fortune of more than 1bn from his clubs and restaurants empire, which also includes the Sexy Fish in Mayfair, secured permission from the council to close part of Onslow Square for two weeks in order to install a crane to carry the mature trees over a row of neighbouring terraced houses.