Pensioner cleared of altering plans of £20m home to stop neighbour's extension

A millionaire pensioner accused of doctoring plans of her £20 million house to stop her next-door neighbours extending their home has been cleared of wrongdoing by a judge.

Brenda Fenton, 87, and neighbours Clive and Marsha Lewis, both 65 — who have Sir Paul McCartney living in their St John’s Wood street — have been at loggerheads for more than two decades, the Court of Appeal heard.

The latest dispute followed a 2015 court ruling, ordering the Lewises to remove a roof which caused water to flow from their extension on to Mrs Fenton’s Grade II listed property .

The couple faced more than £250,000 in legal bills from that fight, but returned with fresh plans for a two-storey extension.

But Mrs Fenton claimed the boundary wall involved was all hers and not shared. This led to an accusation that she fraudently altered plans of her home by hand to show this.

But Judge Nicholas Parfitt yesterday rejected the claim, saying other people could have marked the plans. The judge allowed a party wall award which means the extension scheme can go ahead.