Council and chiropractor clash over L’Ancresse land

Friday 13th June 2008, 2:29PM BST.

A DISPUTE over a 50ft strip of land at L’Ancresse has flared up again.

Chiropractor Brian Bolderston (pictured) was at work yesterday morning when he saw a contractor on behalf of the L’Ancresse Commons Council putting granite pillars in the ground outside. He has been fighting the council over its jurisdiction over the land but had received no notice of the work.

When he bought the property in 1999 it had open access from the front but since 2004 grass has been reinstated and pillars laid around it by the council so that he has a 12ft vehicle access on one side and pedestrian access on the other.

He managed to use the pedestrian access and some of a neighbour’s property to allow small cars to go through, creating an in-and-out system for the practise, which can have up to four visitors an hour.