Neighbours challenge underground cinema plans near Beckhams' home

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 27 Oct, 13:20 · Archive

Neighbours in Holland Park, west London, where David and Victoria Beckham live, are fighting a court battle over plans for a basement gym and cinema.

Photographer Piers Calvert and former banker turned choral singer Lisa Erickson, who live in a building in Holland Park, west London, are challenging plans by another flat owner to excavate a basement featuring a gym and cinema room beneath the garden. The mystery owner, an offshore entity, has obtained planning permission for the work.

Through a freehold and residents' company of which they are directors, Mr Calvert and Mrs Erickson are fighting the plans in the High Court. The case centres on whether the company owns only the cultivable surface of the garden or all the soil beneath it 'to the centre of the earth'. The neighbours argue that, despite the planning permission granted, the ground floor owner has no legal right to dig deep into the earth to construct the room.

The dispute is taking place on the same road where David and Victoria Beckham bought their £31.5 million primary home in 2013, located in an exclusive enclave that also includes properties of Simon Cowell, Elton John and Robbie Williams.

How it is being reported

• Residents living beside David and Victoria Beckham on 'millionaire's row' in bitter court fight over mystery neighbour's plans for giant cinema under gardenPhotographer Piers Calvert is fighting alongside downstairs neighbour, a former banker turned choral singer Lisa Erickson, in the west London planning row.Daily Mail · 27 Oct, 12:59
• David and Victoria Beckham's London millionaire's row neighbours in court fight over underground cinemaTwo neighbours in the Beckhams’ west London street have challenged a bid to build a basement gym and cinema roomEvening Standard · 27 Oct, 09:46

In this story: David Beckham · Victoria Beckham · Piers Calvert · Lisa Erickson · Holland Park · Simon Cowell · Elton John · Robbie Williams

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