Football club chairman in £100k battle over bid to tear down 'eyesore man cave'

A football club president is facing a court battle over a garden build that a neighbour says breaches a lease and planning permission. Justin Salmon is locked in a dispute with Andrianna Neophytou in Mayors and City County Court over a 24ft “den” and related structures in Tollers Lane, Coulsdon, Surrey. Neophytou, the freeholder of the maisonette below the Salmons and the upstairs neighbour, previously secured a tribunal ruling requiring changes. She is now suing for demolition, arguing Salmon converted the space into an open-sided outdoor bar while keeping the same footprint. Lawyers predict legal costs exceeding £100,000. Salmon says the structures are now no more than a shed and pergola.