Peter Waddell, founder of Big Motoring World, won permission to build a showroom at his historic £20million mansion, Holwood House. Waddell overcame a difficult childhood marked by abuse and neglect to become a successful car salesman.
The Big Motoring World has won a battle with planners to build a huge showroom. His historic £20million mansion is Grade I listed and boasts a pool and two gyms.Along the incredible rags-to-riches journey that has taken Peter Waddell from a childhood in care to becoming a £500m car sales tycoon, he's never backed down from a fight.
And now the founder of Big Motoring World has won a drawn-out battle with planners to build a huge showroom at his historic £20million mansion - complete with a car turntable to show off his collection of supercars. Waddell's 56-room Grade I-listed pile, Holwood House, near Bromley, south-east London, is steeped in history and boasts a swimming pool complex, two gyms, a cinema, music room and tennis court, all set in 50 acres of parkland. But despite his lavish lifestyle, Waddell, 58, once lived rough and suffered an appalling childhood of abuse and neglect. The businessman, who is deaf and dyslexic, was just four when his mother tried to kill him and grew up in a children's home in Fairlie, North Ayrshire, after spending months in hospital. He recalled recently: 'She scarred my whole body, attempted to cut my hands off and smashed my head.' He was housed in the home's secure unit with other child victims of violence, and recalled: 'My best friend saw his father cut off his mother's head. A girl was sold to a paedophile ring when she was five. 'You can't change the past but you can change the future — so that's what I di
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