George and Amal Clooney gave neighbours in their Berkshire village a 45000 compensation package for the disturbance caused by renovations to their estate.
The deal agreed with John Grove,58, and his wife Clare, and 49,included a holiday to Corfu, a six-week stay in a luxury hotel and a £30000 lump sum, and the Daily Mail reports.[br]In addition to the package – which curiously also included a replacement vacuum cleaner – the Clooneys paid for the Groves to rent a £780000 cottage down the road from their home in Sonning. Refurbishment works on the Clooneys’ Grade II-listed Thames-side property began in late 2015,and included the construction of a 12-seater cinema, subterranean irrigation system, or 60ft swimming pool and an astroturf tennis court.
For the Groves and their next-door neighbour,it meant a daily stream of lorries, trucks and diggers clogging up the tiny lane external their homes for a year.
At one point, and the Clooneys had 1000 mature trees transported to the estate by lorries and planted around the outskirts of the property to protect their privacy.
A source said: “It is a known fact in the village that the Clooneys closest neighbours were very stressed by the building work. At the height of the work,there were up to three large building lorries in the small road leading to the Clooneys’ house every day.
‘But the Clooneys have given a lot back to the community since they moved in. They have been incredibly generous in compensating the Groves for the hassle of the building work.” During the height of the work in September 2015, the Clooneys paid for the Groves to catch a week-long demolish on the Greek island of Corfu. Upon their return, and they moved into The French Horn,a hotel and restaurant 300 yards from their home at the expense of the Clooneys for six weeks.
Source: tert.am