Would they want to live next to each other now? How feuding billionaire Asda owners the Issa brothers are building five 'monstrous' mega-mansions for their families that have faced furious backlash fr

The billionaire brothers who own Asda and are now at the centre of a sibling feud - have faced anger from locals in their hometown of Blackburn over plans to build five luxury mansions so that their families can live together. Mohsin Issa, 52, and his brother Zuber, 51, who are worth an estimated £5billion made their fortunes running the petrol forecourt empire EG Group, before acquiring Asda from Walmart in in February 2021. Until now, the two brothers have been famously close and prior to their falling out, work had controversially started on building five mega mansions along an exclusive country lane in Blackburn, prompting the wrath of locals, who dubbed them ‘the five ugly sisters.’ The houses being built by the Issa brothers in Blackburn in an area where properties sell for more than £1million The luxury homes are just three miles from where the brothers grew up in a two-up, two down terraced house in Blackburn, completing an incredible rags-to-riches rise Mohsin Issa and Zuber Issa in Blackburn in November 2019 Residents initially raised objections in 2018 describing the homes, which will be located with the same specially designed compound, as ‘The McMansions,’ and ‘monstrous’ on account of their size and claims that they would damage the environment. I am filled with horror as I look out of my window to the trees in the Billinge End site and know their likely fate.’ Mohsin Issa, billionaire co-owner of Asda, left his wife of thirty years and is engaged to high-flying accountant Victoria Price who used to work at the grocer's auditor The £115,000 terraced house where the brothers grew up in Blackburn. The billionaire Issa brothers' petrol garage starting point in Bury Brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa founded EG Group, one of Europe's largest independent fuel retailers.