The occupants of the apartment block in Holland Park, west London , fought Sophie Hicks for eight years after she tried to build a glowing glass entrance to her home.
Architect Sophie Hicks (pictured with her model daughter Olympia Campbell) dreamed of building a subterranean house with an ultra modern glass entrance in Holland Park.
Traditionalist neighbours have won a £2million court fight to block a top architect from building a glowing glass entrance to her ultra-modern underground house next to their Victorian homes.
World-renowned architect Sophie Hicks has been left with a £1.3m court bill after losing a six-year-long battle with seven neighbours, sparked when she got planning permission to construct a cutting-edge underground house, featuring a gently glowing glass box at street level in 2015.
The neighbours, spearheaded by pensioner Maria Letemendia, 71, said they wanted to stop the new building next to their flats in a Victorian villa in Holland Park, London, for aesthetic reasons, stating through their lawyers: We do not all want to live next door to the creative and interesting.