The retail giant is taking Morisett pensioner Bert Gambrill to court after the pensioner refused to let it use his land to complete a $30 million shopping centre next door.

Mr Gambrill moved to Lithgow because he could not live with the noise and dust from the construction site. Mr Gambrill said he wanted the corporation to "bugger off my land and leave me alone".

"My poor old dad built the house and has lived there since 1948," Mr Gambrill’s son Neil said.

"If they want the land that bad, they can buy it," Mr Gambrill's son, Neil Gambrill, said.

Neil Gambrill said Woolworths could have the property for about $1 million.

Woolworths subsidiary Fabcot has made an application to Toronto Local Court to gain access to Mr Gambrill's property to finish construction.

Woolworths spokesman Benedict Brook said the company regretted that it had to go to court to complete the development "for the benefit of the whole Morisset community".

Woolworths wants to erect temporary scaffolding 1.2 metres onto Mr Gambrill's land to build a 13-metre wall to finish the shopping centre.

Woolworths originally offered Mr Gambrill $2500 to use his land for 42 weeks, before upping the offer to $3720 based on an independent valuation.

Fabcot believed the land was worth about $600,000, compared to the price it paid for the shopping centre land, Mr Langley said in the court application.

But Neil Gambrill said the valuation was a joke, considering Morisset was set to boom.

Mr Brook said Woolworths had tried to negotiate in good faith.

The Woolworths court application said it was "in the public interest for the shopping centre to be opened as soon as possible".

"[Woolworths] will incur significant costs if work must cease because access is not granted."

Gaining access to Mr Gambrill's site was the "only practical manner" to do the work.