He comes from a famously courteous family, but theatre producer Michael Attenborough (pictured) is in no mood to turn the other cheek in his battle with his neighbour, TV and radio presenter Jamie Theakston, writes SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE He comes from a famously courteous family, but theatre producer Michael Attenborough is in no mood to turn the other cheek in his battle with his neighbour, TV and radio presenter Jamie Theakston. Appalled by Theakston’s plans to build a four-bedroom, £2.5 million house in the extensive back garden of his home in Chiswick, West London, Attenborough has, I can disclose, retaliated — by securing permission to enlarge his own property. Attenborough — 69-year-old son of the late film legend Lord Attenborough and nephew of conservation guru Sir David — declines to discuss this decision. But plans submitted to his local council show that he and his second wife, Karen, have been given the go-ahead to add a flat-roofed extension to the Victorian house where they’ve lived for 30 years. It measures approximately 20ft by 8 ft. Two years ago, Attenborough lamented how he had spent ‘two-and-a-half years fighting Jamie Theakston’s ambitions to make money’. Those ambitions became apparent soon after Theakston paid £3.85… Read full this story
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