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Evening Standard
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Richard Gittins

London couple lose fight over 48cm sliver of land as kitchen extension given 'squatters rights'

The boundary dispute centred on where a kitchen extension was built - (Supplied by Champion News)

A London couple have lost a four-year boundary battle over a 48cm "sliver" of land after trying to force their neighbours to demolish the kitchen wall of their £600,000 house.

Cambridge-educated tax company boss Susannah James bought a £600,000 semi-detached house in the London suburb of Surbiton in 2021 and the following year began a legal fight with the couple who own the house next door after insisting their kitchen extension had been built 48cm over the boundary between their two properties.

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