I will not be moved...

[SueEllen]

His house price must have gone up by now. I don't see why he can't negotiate with them. He'll sell so they can build either side but they build him a brand new one on his plot for nothing. They get the land, he gets a new house and everyone is happy

He wants the same house he's lived in since he was born.

I'm sure there was a similar story in China of someone doing the same but he ended up being stuck in the middle of motorway....

[NotAllThere]

There was a film about it.

Up.

[minestrone]

He wants the same house he's lived in since he was born.

Thatcher's right to buy was electoral love music.

[OwlHoot]

He wants the same house he's lived in since he was born.

I'm sure there was a similar story in China of someone doing the same but he ended up being stuck in the middle of motorway....

Sounds similar to Stott Hall Farm, tucked below two divergent sides of the M62 in the wilds of the Pennines. Like most people probably, I assumed it was an obstinate farmer who had refused to budge. But apparently in that case the reason was more mundane, and related to a patch of dodgy geology:

2017-11-03 Life between the lanes: inside Yorkshire's motorway farm

[GJABS]

I'm sure there was a similar story in China of someone doing the same but he ended up being stuck in the middle of motorway....