A SMALLHOLDER in a village near Winchester has been fined £100 for breaking a court order.

Robert Memory, 55, did not house cockerels between 11pm and 7am on July 10 2020 at the holding he calls Gunn-Barrell Estate at Alresford Drove, on the edge of South Wonston.

Memory was present in court to admit the breach of the community protection notice imposed by the city council.

Magistrates in Basingstoke fined him £100 with a £34 victim surcharge and an order for £60 costs.

Memory's address on the court record was given as Mountbatten Place in Kings Worthy.

He has been at loggerheads with his neighbours for years with numerous complaints about noise nuisance from his animals, including pigs.

In 2018 he was fined for allowing cocks to crow in the early morning on the land, breaking a noise abatement order.

He lost a planning appeal over an application to live in a motor home and build barns on the site and was ordered to leave the small holding where he lived in a motor caravan.

Memory does not speak to the press but on the Chronicle website in 2017, in a response to criticism, he wrote: "The land has always been a small holding called Lilly dale before South Wonston existed. I do not have to leave the sight neither do the animals, I just cannot according to the council live on it. That is still to be decided by the courts and not people like you who don't even know what they are talking about."