‘Lord’ is banned from using home for parties

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Entrepreneur Davenport, 44, has hosted a series of glittering events for guests including Cher and Naomi Campbell at the 110-room Portland Place property. Among them was a masked ball, pole-dancing lessons and a Courvoisier party last December with a "gigantic punchbowl" filled with 1,000 litres of alcohol.

Westminster council claimed the property should not be used for commercial purposes and an interim injunction banning Davenport from hiring it out was granted in January.

However, planning officers sought a permanent injunction from the High Court to enforce this. Davenport denied he had breached any planning rules and claimed an injunction would be "oppressive" and create "overwhelming hardship and prejudice" to him and others.

But today a judge ruled there had been a breach of planning control and banned him from using the property, owned by Portland Place (Historic House) Ltd, for any non-residential purposes.

At a hearing in June, Saira Kabir Sheikh, representing Westminster, told the court a planning officer arrived at the December party to be told tickets could be bought online for £6.50.

She claimed that noise from the house got so loud it "constituted a statutory nuisance". Davenport co-founded Gate-Crashers, which organises parties at stately homes.