In London, class warfare of a different stripe

London

IT has been likened to a beach hut, mocked as being garish and compared to a giant candy cane or an ice cream stall.

But this week, the High Court in London ruled that Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring, a property developer who painted her multimillion-dollar town house with red and white stripes, could ignore a planning order from the local council to cover the pattern.