UK football club boss faces £100k legal battle over 24ft garden room built in 2018

A 24ft garden room built by a football club official in the UK in 2018 has led to a lengthy dispute with his upstairs neighbour, who now wants the entire structure demolished. Justin Salmon, who installed a bar, television and electric doorbell in the room at his Surrey home, has already removed several features following an earlier tribunal ruling. However, his neighbour, Andrianna Neophytou, insists that the changes are insufficient. The disagreement has reached court, with lawyers estimating that legal costs could exceed £100,000.According to The Independent, at the centre of the dispute is a garden in Tollers Lane, Coulsdon, where Salmon and his wife Karen live in a ground-floor maisonette. Neophytou occupies the property above them and is also the freeholder of their home.The trouble began in 2017 when Salmon asked Neophytou for permission to put up a pergola, an open garden structure, and she agreed.