BrightonCottager
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Al Fayed's land bordered onto the M25 and he successfully sued the Department for Transport for the pollution washing onto his land from the road surface. As a result, from then on, the DfT was forced to put in proper drainage on trunk roads.
He also unsuccessfully tried to get permission for a heliport moored on the Thames in a seminal planning law case still quoted today.
He severely pissed off the establishment through outing the MPs he paid to ask questions (leading to the Nolan Principles) and then his son going out with Princess Diana and accusing the royals of assassinating them. Unlike the Russian oligarchs he didn't own friendly newspapers or donate £Mimms to the Conservatives.
He also unsuccessfully tried to get permission for a heliport moored on the Thames in a seminal planning law case still quoted today.
He severely pissed off the establishment through outing the MPs he paid to ask questions (leading to the Nolan Principles) and then his son going out with Princess Diana and accusing the royals of assassinating them. Unlike the Russian oligarchs he didn't own friendly newspapers or donate £Mimms to the Conservatives.