{"id":53007,"date":"2017-04-26T19:59:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/yes-the-stripy-house-is-an-eyesore-but-its-hardly-a-neighbour-from-hell-michele-hanson\/"},"modified":"2017-04-26T20:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T13:02:15","slug":"yes-the-stripy-house-is-an-eyesore-but-its-hardly-a-neighbour-from-hell-michele-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/yes-the-stripy-house-is-an-eyesore-but-its-hardly-a-neighbour-from-hell-michele-hanson\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the stripy house is an eyesore. But it\u2019s hardly a neighbour from hell | Michele Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI\u2019d much rather have to gaze upon the incongruous Kensington paint job than live with the violence, paranoia that turned me into a sleepless wreckIn a tremendously swanky area of Kensington, Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring, a property developer, painted the front of her house in garish red-and-white stripes, enraging her neighbours. Now the high court in London is allowing her to keep it that way. And, lucky her \u2013 she only uses the house for storage, so she doesn\u2019t have to face her infuriated neighbours, day in, day out.I feel sorry for them. The house looks wildly incongruous, the street must now be fizzing with hatred, and they can\u2019t even have a shout at Lisle-Mainwaring, because she probably isn\u2019t around, and pent-up rage does no one any good. But although the title \u201cproperty developer\u201d sickens me, and I think she\u2019s wrecked the loveliness and harmony of the street, as difficult neighbours go, she is fairly mild. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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