Nigel Mansell sells house for £11m

The property, which overlooks St Brelade’s Bay, was sold, with contents and land, for £10,975,000 to Beauport House Ltd.

After moving to the Island in the mid-1990s Mr Mansell courted controversy when he gained planning approval to add an extension to his home, called Beauport Battery, and later went on to add a security fence following problems with intruders.

The extension, added around a decade ago, included a steam room, spa, gym and home cinema as well as a snooker and games room.

And in 2007 the racing star was given permission to create an eight-foot perimeter fence at his home, on Chemin de Beauport, which in 2010 was valued at £5.8 million by the Sunday Times Rich List.

Mr Mansell is understood to be an active buyer and seller in Jersey’s property market and in 2013 opened the ‘Mansell Collection’, a car dealership that also contains a museum dedicated to his F1 career.

Beauport Battery in St Brelade's BayThe fence going up

In 2007, Nigel Mansell controversially built an 8 ft metal security fence around Beauport Battery.

At the time, Mr Mansell told the JEP that he needed to put up the security fence to protect his family from break-ins and attacks by local thugs.

However, although Planning approved it in 2006, soon after work began on building the fence in October 2006 he was told to stop working on it because he had breached conditions imposed by Planning.

They said that he had not provided them with the information they required when work began at Beauport Battery.

However, in November 2007 Planning agreed a deal with Mr Mansell and he was allowed to finish building the fence.

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