A judge has ruled that Country Homeowners are not entitled to the peace and quiet a rural paradise would normally be expected to provide, in a row over a barn conversion. Zoe Bucknell, a corporate lawyer, was told by a judge that she “is not automatically entitled to the maintenance of the same rural peace and quiet” as when she bought her £1.3 million property in 2014 after she tried to block a development near her farmhouse in Kent. Mrs Bucknell clashed with Mark Stoneham, a game-shooting pedigree beef farmer, over his plans to convert a next-door barn into two houses while using her drive as access for heavy construction traffic. The keen horse rider – with her own stables at home – said “noise disturbance, vibration [and] fumes” from traffic passing up the 55 metre driveway past her “quiet and secluded forever home” posed a threat not just to her peace but to the fabric of the driveway and

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