Khalid Ikram has lived in Harrow Road, Sudbury, for 31 years, but he and his family have spent the last decade increasingly concerned by the expansion of an Islamic charity on either side of their home.
The International Islamic Link (IIL) charity bought 856-858 Harrow Road in the 2007 and converted it to a place of worship and community centre before trying to buy number 852 to do the same thing.
Brent Council slapped an enforcement order on the second property which would have stopped it operating as a mosque, but an appeal saw this overturned by the Planning Inspectorate (PI).
In response, Khalid decided to challenge the PI's decision in the High Court.
And now, he and his family are celebrating after Mrs Justice Lang overturned the decision and ruled in favour of Khalid's application for judicial and statutory review of the PI's decision.
IIL runs the Babul Murad Centre at 856-858 Harrow Road. After several planning rejections, it was granted retrospective planning permission for a number of changes to the site - including a large extension to house a library.
It has also now been officially designated a place of worship for eight years.
Despite this, in the course of the planning dispute about its second property, IIL argued that the Babul Murad Centre does not operate as a mosque and is primarily a community centre.
This is because at the High Court lawyers for IIL argued the new Masjid Imam Ali mosque at 852 was necessary because the closest mosque serving Urdu-speaking Shia Muslims was six miles away in Stanmore.
