A millionaire businessman have angered his neighbours by erecting an electric fence around his £44.5 million Notting Hill mansion.

David Walsh claims the fence around his four-storey townhouse was put up to stop foxes entering his garden.

But his neighbours have accused him of making the heritage area look like a “POW camp” and causing a “public safety risk”.

Mr Walsh, founder of insurance company CFC, bought the property in 2023.

In retrospective planning documents he argued that the inclusion of the fence was “intended for fox prevention purposes ”, according to the Daily Mail.

The fence runs the length of the boundary wall between Mr Walsh’s property and the next.

A warning sign along the fence states that the equipment is designed to keep pigs, horses, sheep, cows and dee

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