Famous Kensington townhouse faces the chop.
The property developer who painted red and white stripes on her multi million-pound townhouse has won her appeal over her plans to demolish it.
Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring always denied the paint job was done to spite her neighbours who objected to her plans to redevelop the £4.75m three-storey property in Kensington, west London, replacing it with a new home and changing its use from storage to residential.
Neighbour Niall Carroll asked the High Court to quash a planning inspector’s decision to grant permission for the work.
The businessman said the inspector failed to have proper regard to the material consideration of a possible reversion of the property to office use and failed to give adequate reasons for his conclusions.
In October last year, Mrs Justice Lang accepted that it appeared that the inspector misdirected himself in law in his consideration of the possible future reversion.
In a ruling made public on Monday, three judges in the Court of Appeal restored the inspector’s decision.
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