Haringey’s Lib Dem leader Neil Williams and Parliamentary spokesperson Lynne Featherstone are today submitting a petition to Haringey Council over controversial attempts by developers to erect large buildings on a site in the Campsbourne, Hornsey, which would have a severe impact on local residents and the immediate area. Cllr Williams says he hopes Haringey Council will do whatever it can to stop the development.

Builders are trying 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 meter 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 say that if the plans are realised, local tenants and residents would only have a view from the windows of their homes of a blank wall approximately 39 feet high – depriving them of direct air flow and light. Such large buildings would also overshadow further nearby properties on Rectory Gardens, The Campsbourne, and Campsbourne Road.

Cllr Lynne Featherstone, who visited the site last week to meet local campaigner Roger Peters, comments: “I am appalled at the potential impact of this scheme. It seems a terrible planing decision, with huge new buildings being erected near people’s homes. The development should not be going ahead.”