Beckhams' neighbours fight in court over underground cinema

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 29 Oct, 12:46 · Archive

Neighbours of David and Victoria Beckham are in a High Court dispute over plans to excavate a basement for a gym and cinema.

Neighbours of David and Victoria Beckham in Holland Park, London, are in a High Court dispute over plans to excavate a basement for a gym and cinema room beneath their shared garden. Photographer Piers Calvert, 48, who owns the attic flat lease, and choral singer Lisa Erickson, 69, who owns the maisonette below, have taken legal action against another flat owner in their five-storey Grade-II listed Victorian house.

The central question before Master Francesca Kaye at London's High Court is whether the residents' company, of which Calvert and Erickson are directors, owns only the surface of the garden or all the soil beneath it. The company's barrister David Nicholls argued that the garden's legal 'demise' does not include subsoil beyond what is needed for garden use.

The other party to the dispute is a ground floor owner represented by an offshore entity with little public information available. The Beckhams bought their £31.5 million home on the same Holland Park street in 2013. Flats in the area have recently sold for over £3 million.

How it is being reported

• David and Victoria Beckham's neighbours in court battleDavid and Victoria Beckham's neighbours are in a court row over plans for an underground cinema.Oxford Mail · 29 Oct, 12:30
• David and Victoria Beckham's neighbours in court battleDavid and Victoria Beckham's neighbours are in a court row over plans for an underground cinema.Oxfordshire Guardian · 29 Oct, 12:30

In this story: David Beckham · Victoria Beckham · Piers Calvert · Lisa Erickson · Holland Park · London

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