A bitter neighbour battle over EIGHT FOOT: How two men went to war over their narrow shared driveway... but two years later who won?

It was the neighbourly feud to extremity each neighbourly feuds and though the players person changed, successful 1 leafy North London neighbourhood the crippled is inactive the same. 

Like each neighbours, Alisson Roberto Teixeira and Robert Medcalfe had started retired arsenic acquaintances, swapping drawback ups astir their lives and section country implicit their 8-foot shared driveway successful Dollis Hill, North London. 

However, this tiny spot of communal tarmac was to beryllium the pair's no-mans onshore aft Italian businessman Teixeira decided helium wanted to marque usage of it successful a mode that appalled Medcalfe. 

And so, successful 2022 things came to a caput aft ambitious plans were submitted to Brent assembly for Teixeira to physique a marque caller location down his spot utilizing the 2.7m-wide shared driveway arsenic an entree roadworthy - with the task estimated to outgo up to £2million to complete.

Locals were appalled and his neighbour felt betrayed, saying astatine the time: 'How tin you effort to bash thing with someone's spot without speaking with them and getting permission? That's not what neighbours do.' 

But do, Teixeria did, and it was lone aft spending £7,500 warring his erstwhile person that Medcalfe was capable to claw backmost the dignity of protecting his driveway by stopping the plans successful their tracks. 

However, the combat took a dense toll. 

Last year, successful a boon for Mr Teixeira, Mr Medcalfe raised the achromatic emblem and decided to chopped his losses with neighbours telling MailOnline the 'stress and aggravation' had been excessively much. 

Now caller of his triumph, Mr Teixeira has submitted caller plans to the assembly for the  arguable development, which volition spot 3 garages pulled down for entree and the instauration of 2 caller parking spaces. 

When MailOnline visited the 2 warring properties contiguous we were told that since Mr Medcalfe moved retired past year, caller tenants person moved in. 

It is unclear if they are alert of the standard of the plans. 

Mr Teixera's ample spot is presently being rented retired to a young household who said they had been informed of the caller plans, nevertheless the antheral himself was not disposable for comment. 

The sheer standard of the plans has ever been a arguable substance on the Dorris Hill boulevard. 

If approved, the location would diagnostic a important basement boasting a vino cellar, games country and a bar, with plans showing it dispersed implicit 2 and a fractional storeys.

A store would request to beryllium knocked down to marque mode for the home.

Concerns came astir implicit the request for aboriginal residents to usage Mr Teixeira and Mr Medcalfe's shared driveway to get to the property.

Mr Medcalfe said helium was ne'er consulted implicit this plan, which helium said 'relies connected my consent', which would besides spot operation vehicles question up and down it during the build.

This would person prevented him accessing his ain thrust and by default, his ain location and garage.

There were besides fears exigency services would not beryllium capable to summation entree to a caller location astatine the back, arsenic the driveway is lone 2.7 metres wide, neighbours told MailOnline.

Speaking past year, neighbour Reza, told MailOnline the combat took a superior toll connected Robert, explaining: 'He sold up due to the fact that helium had truthful overmuch accent implicit the past mates of years with what was going on.'

He added: 'It conscionable gradually built up and I deliberation yet helium couldn't grip the accent and aggravation immoderate longer, that's wherefore he's moved.

'It started disconnected with a 1 and a fractional storey gathering successful the backmost garden, past it went to a storey positive a loft conversion and a basement judge it oregon not.

'It's a shared drive, you can't person entree to a location via a shared drive, it's meant to beryllium for some houses.

'They took it to entreaty but the entreaty was turned down eventually. I don't cognize what the program is, whether they'll spell backmost and redo it, I don't know.

'If it went to a two-and-a-half storey, that's rather high. That's rather a large building.

'I deliberation it was going to beryllium an HMO arsenic well, bring truthful galore other cars and wholly alteration the full environment.

'The basement had a cellar, vino bar, the lone happening that was missing was a disco and you could person a bully clip successful there.

'It is ridiculous, idiosyncratic successful this area, it made nary consciousness for each the different buildings.

'It's a precise quiescent country and would alteration the ambiance of the place. They went to appeal, which I deliberation is arsenic acold arsenic you tin instrumentality it.

'Everyone was against it.'

Documents showed Mr Teixeira, who rents retired the spot to a radical of Brazilian moped transportation drivers, owned the crippled of onshore wherever helium hoped to physique a 3 furniture location of aggregate occupancy with a carpark.