Neighbours have develop into locked in a bitter six-figure authorized row after one constructed a fence by means of the opposite’s tennis courtroom.
Jeremy Cowdrey, 63, has claimed his neighbour Vanessa Gibson, 53, triggered him to lose three gross sales of his £3.25 million house in Goudhurst, Kent.
He has opened a £350,000 lawsuit in opposition to Mrs Gibson, who lives subsequent door in a £2.2 million house.
She purchased the Hen Area, a 12.2-acre parcel of land, in 2022, a part of which runs by means of the movie producer’s property, bisecting his astroturf tennis courtroom.
Her assertive possession of the land has prompted a vicious dispute, The Solar has experiences and regardless of an earlier settlement to erect a fence by means of the courtroom, Mr Cowdrey has claimed his neighbour has made the house unsellable.
Excessive Courtroom filings present Mr Cowdrey’s declare that the land owned by Mrs Gibson has been utilized by the homeowners of his six-bed Grade II listed house for greater than 20 years.
In an electronic mail to his neighbour, the movie producer states the fenced tennis courtroom “is fairly clear proof of that”.
However Mrs Gibson has argued his courtroom “slices by means of” her land and warned him in an electronic mail that she would “use the land that’s registered as being owned by us for any objective we want”.
Mr Cowdrey has claimed that her “frequent and voluminous correspondence” disputing his claims to the land has delay potential property patrons.
Excessive courtroom filings present Mr Cowdrey claimed to have obtained a suggestion of £3.85 million from a pair for the house in April this yr, however they withdrew from the sale in June.
He argued the patrons and two others pulled out due to her behaviour, accusations Mrs Gibson has vehemently denied.
In her defence assertion, she mentioned she “categorically refutes the Declare introduced in opposition to her”, and branded it “ill-founded and unproven” and “fairly unapologetically, defamatory”.
Mr Cowdrey, who’s but to put the property again available on the market, has argued the dispute was settled in March 2023 and that Mrs Gibson is manufacturing a dispute by requiring potential patrons’ data of the difficulty.
The 2 agreed to the “elimination of a part of the tennis courtroom and the erection of fencing” in March.
Mr Cowdrey has accused her of performing maliciously and making false claims in a deliberate marketing campaign to frustrate and delay the sale of his property, alleging that her motivation is for the “compensation…the complete switch of the Hen Area”.
He has sought a declaration that her allegations of disputes are misconceived and false, an injunction banning her from asserting that the disputes are real, and damages of greater than £350,000.
Mrs Gibson has referred to as Mr Cowdrey’s allegations “not confirmed”.