John Terry is slide-tackled over garage for supercars

DAVID CAmeron’s favourite pantomime has been called off because of the coronavirus crisis. ‘The Chipping norton Theatre panto has been performed, without interruption, for the past 47 years,’ confirms a spokesman for the theatre near the former Pm’s oxfordshire home. ‘sadly, the risks of proceeding with a show this year are simply too great.’ so Cameron will have to make do with the Whitehall farce currently being staged by Boris Johnson and his hapless education secretary Gavin Williamson.

FEW will ever emulate his enviable life path — from insalubrious beginnings in Barking, Essex, to captain of the England football team and a £40 million fortune.

But John Terry, revered — and sometimes reviled — for his uncompromising style of play, may have met his match in the gin-and- Jag heartlands of Surrey’s stockbroker belt. That’s where he and his former beautician wife, Toni, (pictured) snapped up their latest property last year, paying £4.35 million for a sumptuous 18th- century mansion, with library, stables, swimming pool and tennis court, set in eight acres near his old club Chelsea’s training ground.

Despite the house’s grandeur, the couple recently sought permission to add a covered outdoor seating area — equipped with a bar — and to replace the current triple garage with a new version.

This would house Terry’s car collection, which includes a Ferrari 275 GTB and a £2 million Enzo, and would also provide accommodation for ‘ancillary domestic staff’.

Though Terry neutralised many an opponent in a career that led to five Premier League winner’s medals, until now he’s not had to contend with neighbour Imogen Jamieson, who, in an online forum for female writers, says she observes ‘small successes with pleasure’ and seeks ‘subtle humour wherever possible’.

Undeterred by Terry’s reputation on or off the field, Mrs Jamieson wrote to Guildford Council’s planning officer on behalf of Ockham Parish Council, accusing Terry of an ‘ inappropriate and excessive development’. In particular, she points out that an external staircase leading to the staff accommodation will cause neighbours to be overlooked.

Nor is she impressed by the lack of detailed information about the size of the new building. ‘ Without specific dimensions,’ she writes, ‘we cannot be sure the increased height will not be visible from the road’.

Can Terry, 39, now Aston Vi l l a ’ s assistant head coach, nod that one over the bar?