The property developer who painted red and white stripes on her multi million-pound townhouse has had her plans to demolish it blocked at the High Court.

Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring denied that the paint job was done to spite her neighbours who objected to her plans to demolish the three-storey property in South End, Kensington, west London, replace it with a new home and change its current use from storage to residential.

Her original plans included a double-storey basement extension, but that was rejected.

Neighbour Niall Carroll had asked the court to quash a planning inspector's decision, in February, to grant permission for the demolition and proposed development.

Mr Carroll said that the inspector failed to have proper regard to the material consideration of a possible reversion of the property to office use and failed to give adequate reasons for his conclusions.

The businessman was concerned about the impact of the proposed development on his family and property.