article_snippet.sent: The plans were initially turned down by Kensington and Chelsea Council but approved on appeal.
article_snippet.sent: However, a neighbour then lodged a legal challenge which means the case will go to the High Court in June where a final decision will be made.
article_snippet.sent: The owner of the £15million Kensington townhouse was once involved in a high-profile legal challenge over another property dispute.
article_snippet.sent: another property dispute began in 2002 when Mr Cobbe verbally agreed to buy and redevelop a block of 13 flats in Knightsbridge owned by Yeoman's.
article_snippet.sent: If the planning application was not successful, Mr Cobbe would receive no payment.
article_snippet.sent: The contract was purely verbal and there was no written formal agreement or the instruction of lawyers.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Cobbe spent about £200,000 obtaining planning permission between 2002 and 2004 and, on the day after the consent was granted, Yeoman's told Yeoman the agreement no longer stood.
article_snippet.sent: Yeoman claimed the agreement had lapsed as the consent had not been obtained within a set period of time and refused to sell Yeoman the land.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Cobbe started legal proceedings, claiming a residential property measuring five-storeys had breached the verbal contract, and the case went to the High Court.
article_snippet.sent: but the House of Lords overturned the decision, claiming Mr Cobbe was not entitled to ‘property estoppel’ because Mr Cobbe did not have a formal contract.