Little Green Street off Highgate Road in Kentish Town is one of only a few intact Georgian streets in London.
Most of the dozen houses were built in the 1780s, are Grade ll listed, and both survived the Blitz and more than two hundred years of wear and tear from the generations who have raised their children in the narrow cobbled terrace.
The street, only 2.5m wide remains a very real threat of being turned into a truck route which would see a vehicle pass within inches of the front doors of these homes every three minutes, all day every day for up to four years down this delicate cul-de-sac.
Although, after eight years of campaigning by more than fifteen thousand people, many visitors to this site, planning permission has lapsed, Camden Council are still vascillating about whether the construction work on a gated community with an underground car park should continue.
Mad, isn't it? Read on. Much of the history is at this site. Thanks for your interest.
Word reaches us that an appeal has been lodged, but its not at the Planning Inspectorate's web-site yet, nor have any of the 140-odd who objected been told. We're firmly convinced that unless it's heard (and Camden's decision overturned) by 23 June, its dead, BUT there's many a slip twixt lip and cup.
Also, the other two conditions are in and need to be resisted. Insert 2008/1828/P and also 2008/1615/P
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Little Green Street
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Editor - It's the developer's second attempt to explain how they're going to protect the trees around the site, one of the conditions the Inspector puton their planning application five years ago. This time they've taken a 'blind them with science' approach. You have until Tuesday 6 to react.