Billiionaire Stefan Persson, owner and chairman of the H&M clothing chain, has been granted permission to build a brand new country pile on his land at Ramsbury.

This is despite concerns from neighbouring millionaire property tycoon Harry Hyams that the work will ruin his pheasant shoots.

The 67-year-old owner of Ramsbury Estates was given permission to build the three-storey property, which will be called Park House, by Wiltshire Council and Ramsbury Parish Council had no objections to the build.

The house will be set on a 780-acre site and will have nine bedrooms and a pool, orangery, garden pavilion and all-weather tennis courts.

Mr Persson, who has a 10,000-acre estate in the county and owns Ramsbury Brewery and The Bell Inn, will employ six full-time members of staff to look after the property.

Architectural historian Jeremy Musson said: “I believe that this proposal, designed by an internationally-renowned and award-winning practice, has demonstrated a detailed evolution of an outstanding design, and a thoroughness in evolving an understanding of the site and local traditions.”

But the proposal includes plans to remove an extensive area of poplars, which has been met with disapproval by 87-year-old Mr Hyams, who has sporting rights covering the area of the development.

Mr Hyams contacted solicitors and sent a formal complaint via a planning agent, who wrote: “Mr Hyams has sporting rights over the whole of the application site and all of its surrounding lands.

“I must enforce the fact that Mr Hyams’ sporting rights are an enforceable legal profit a prendre.

“[These works] would be in direct conflict with his sporting rights, severely compromising the exercise of these sporting rights in full.”

When making the decision, Wiltshire Council officers said that the shooting rights were not a planning issue and the matter would have to be sorted out between the two men.