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'Little Green Street off Highgate Road in Kentish Town is one of the oldest streets in London.
It’s not very big, just eight houses on one side and two on the other. The houses were built in the 1780s are Grade ll listed and remain one of the few intact Georgian streets in London. They have stood unharmed through train crashes, the London Blitz, and survived two hundred years of wear and tear.
Until now, when Little Green Street found itself, through no fault of its own, turned into the only access road for developers hoping to build 20 houses, 10 flats, and an underground car park on derelict land behind Little Green Street.
Despite its size, the developers insist that Little Green Street is big enough to carry all the cranes, diggers, and lorries they need to carry all the waste away from the forty foot deep excavation they need to dig to build their underground car park. Some of the lorries and cranes weigh up to 49 tonnes and some are 2.9m wide. It’s a pity they didn’t measure Little Green Street, because the carriageway of the road is just 2.5m wide.
The work would go on from 8am to 4pm five days a week and would last two years. During all this time no-one would be able to walk, cycle or push a pram down Little Green Street while the lorries were trundling up and down. The three families on the right hand side of the street would have less than six inches of pavement between them and the lorries and none of the dozens of children who use it as a safe short cut to at least four schools would be able to walk down it safely.
At the same time, Camden’s Highways Department put up a sign warning people that the road would soon be closed for Highway reinforcement. Don’t worry, they said, we aren’t going to widen it, just make it stronger. They want to dig 1.2m down and pour concrete to reinforce it. We think the houses will fall down if they do that, because the road is so narrow they haven’t got room to shore it up.
Meanwhile, other people began to get interested in Little Green Street.
Yesterday Bill Nighy, star of Love Actually and Pirates of the Caribbean, wandered by – what’s going on, he asked. We told him. They can’t do that, he said. It’s senseless, he said.
We agree.'
'Little Green Street off Highgate Road in Kentish Town is one of the oldest streets in London.
It’s not very big, just eight houses on one side and two on the other. The houses were built in the 1780s are Grade ll listed and remain one of the few intact Georgian streets in London. They have stood unharmed through train crashes, the London Blitz, and survived two hundred years of wear and tear.
Until now, when Little Green Street found itself, through no fault of its own, turned into the only access road for developers hoping to build 20 houses, 10 flats, and an underground car park on derelict land behind Little Green Street.
Despite its size, the developers insist that Little Green Street is big enough to carry all the cranes, diggers, and lorries they need to carry all the waste away from the forty foot deep excavation they need to dig to build their underground car park. Some of the lorries and cranes weigh up to 49 tonnes and some are 2.9m wide. It’s a pity they didn’t measure Little Green Street, because the carriageway of the road is just 2.5m wide.
The work would go on from 8am to 4pm five days a week and would last two years. During all this time no-one would be able to walk, cycle or push a pram down Little Green Street while the lorries were trundling up and down. The three families on the right hand side of the street would have less than six inches of pavement between them and the lorries and none of the dozens of children who use it as a safe short cut to at least four schools would be able to walk down it safely.
At the same time, Camden’s Highways Department put up a sign warning people that the road would soon be closed for Highway reinforcement. Don’t worry, they said, we aren’t going to widen it, just make it stronger. They want to dig 1.2m down and pour concrete to reinforce it. We think the houses will fall down if they do that, because the road is so narrow they haven’t got room to shore it up.
Meanwhile, other people began to get interested in Little Green Street.
Yesterday Bill Nighy, star of Love Actually and Pirates of the Caribbean, wandered by – what’s going on, he asked. We told him. They can’t do that, he said. It’s senseless, he said.
We agree.'
