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.
Tom Conti, the people's hero and noted actor, etc, was on 'This Morning' with Philip Schofield and Fern Britton this, er morning, pointedly not talking about his new film (which is very good, I am sure) but about 'Phase 2 of the fight' ie the appeal to hack up Little Green Street. Bravo. Give that man an Oscar. There's bound to be one living around here, somewhere.
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We struggle to retain buildings and places that are typically in the 90 to 150 year range in the U.S. (by Brit's standards, almost brand new). However, we seem to do a pretty decent job of creating zones where you would never allow such development to take place if fit meant possilbly sacraficing this sort of history and robbing futre generations of the opportunity to experience it.
Would you allow the same sort of heavy machinary to move through the gates of Buckingham Palace for the next 3-4 years? Or rumbling past the Albert Memorial? The Tower of Lonon? Through Trafalgar square?
Save the street and save your integrity, London. Sacrafice the street and you willfully look an 'endangered species' in the eye and say, "Screw you; I'm gonna make a buck (or pound, as it were).
Good luck to you. Save Little Green Street!