article_snippet.sent: Mr Knott had spent months battling plans for the traveller encampment on the land – which Mr Knott feared would knock thousands off the value of Mr Knott home – and kept a file
article_snippet.sent: But in her husband final months, Mrs Knott had been battling an application for planning permission to turn part of a paddock near to their 300-year-old cottage into a caravan park for travellers.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Knott was said to be fighting plans to build a gipsy camp in a paddock (outlined in red) close to Two caravans and a day room 300-year-old cottage - the second traveller site proposed close to Two caravans and a day room home in two years .
article_snippet.sent: The retired company director was concerned a gipsy camp would affect the value of a gipsy camp £500,000 home .
article_snippet.sent: Detective Sergeant Tim Powell told the hearing a gipsy camp was ‘clearly a concern’ to Mrs Knott.
article_snippet.sent: Detective Sergeant Tim Powell said: ‘Detective Sergeant Tim Powell set about a very professional and comprehensive argument against this planning permission.
article_snippet.sent: Six weeks before her husband death, Mrs Knott wrote a letter to council planners objecting to the proposals.
article_snippet.sent: Friends said Mrs Knott was worried that Latimer Court nursing home in Worcester would plummet in value due to the camps, having been told by property experts property experts could knock up to £125,000 off the price.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Knott had written to the council expressing Mrs Knott concerns that the camp would go right past Mrs Knott home .
highlights_snippet.sent: John Knott had also been fighting plans to build gypsy camp near their home .