Haringey Lib Dems have expressed serious concerns about plans by developers to erect large buildings on a site in the Campsbourne, Hornsey, which would have a terrible impact on local residents.

Builders are planning to erect nine new business and residential units on a small site at the end of The Campsbourne cul-de-sac, off Hornsey High Road. The buildings would rise immediately behind the residential blocks in nearby Pembroke Road. Current plans allow for three-storey buildings with a 13 metre high brick wall (the rear wall of the proposed buildings) to be erected within 27 feet of the windows in the rear walls of the Pembroke Road residential properties and sited immediately in line with the bottom of the gardens of Rectory Gardens.

Lib Dems says that planning permission should never have been granted for the buildings. If the works are carried out, local tenants and residents would only have the view from their windows of a very high blank wall, depriving them of direct air flow and light. Such large buildings would also overshadow other nearby properties on Rectory Gardens, The Campsbourne, and Campsbourne Road.

Lib Dem Leader Cllr Neil Williams, who has written to all residents in the area about the scheme,comments: “We are looking at ways in which this terrible decision by the planning authority can be challenged.There is no way that such a large building should have been allowed near these homes.It will seriously effect the lives of a lot of residents in the area, and should not go ahead. I have asked Haringey to explain the terrible decision in 2001 that allowed for this development.”