Link to the details here https://barnetpost.co.uk/2025/12/09/plans-for-hundreds-of-homes-on-tube-station-car-park-rejected-by-councillors/
by sabdotzed
Link to the details here https://barnetpost.co.uk/2025/12/09/plans-for-hundreds-of-homes-on-tube-station-car-park-rejected-by-councillors/
by sabdotzed
33 comments
That actually looks rather beautiful.
Fucking ridiculous. It’s not even high rise, it’s mid!
>Reform UK councillor Mark Shooter said the proposal was “too dense, too tall, too cramped and the wrong design in the wrong place”. Cllr Shooter said the area had a “village feel” which the residents treasured
“village feel” FFS…
Tom works for GB News, so he has certainly tried to do his bit for densifying the whole country.
Can’t NIMBYs just be ignored?
Exactly where they should be building higher density housing!
Looks nice and certainly better than building on fields 20 off miles from central London and pretending it’s solving an issue.
Same thing is happening in Blackheath… Proposals for redeveloping the station car park as residential and the locals are up in arms. High order NIMBYism
> Councillors cite scale of the eleven-storey scheme and loss of parking as the main issues
I don’t understand why councillors are even allowed to keep this much power when it comes to planning. Surely the lack of housing in London is a city-wide issue? Heck, it’s a nationwide concern at this point.
As someone born and raised in High Barnet, I can safely say that it would look a damn site better than the battered old car garage/graveyard that is there now. BUT, the traffic and congestion on station road is some of the worst I’ve seen in London, especially at the junction opposite this leading down to Dollis Valley and Whetstone.
The flats are lovely in theory and I actually like the design compared to most new builds, but the cars are the problem. More people = more cars, they need to stop the double sided parking on Station Road and sort it all out.
Anyway, the main focus in Barnet shouldn’t be new builds, it should be fixing the Spires and the high street to have shops and foods places people actually want to go to.
Rant over 😂
It’s a sad state of affairs when I agree with Tom Harwood
The city doesn’t stand a chance of developing unless we start building upwards. Every major city in the world is building upwards and here we are stuck trying to keep the village feel ffs.
We own a detached parade of 3 shops with 3 flats above them 2 minutes from Ickenham tube station.
We were not permitted to add front dormers to the loft as it would give the illusion of a third story.
Aparently the maximum desired density in that location is 2 stories. 2.5 / stories was completely unacceptable to the planners
Twickenham did it (not a tube) but literally built it ON TOP of the station.
“Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point.”
I don’t want to ever agree with a GBeebies shill, but seriously fuck Barnet council. The most NIMBY, backward, protect the golf courses at all cost twats.
They are the reason that Barnet FC no longer play home games in Barnet after turning down their new stadium & community resource plans, and have considerably hampered Barnet RFC at getting the clubhouse & fields redeveloped. They kneecap any chance of effective community resources being developed and reject seemingly 90% of all housing development plans.
Look at the picture, the size of the windows and the number of storeys in comparison to the three storey building to the left, which is further away. Eleven storeys high with a building three storeys high next to it. It’s a con. They did this with a development next to me and someone pointed out that it was a block of flats for people who are only 2’6” high.
Where’s Robert Jenrick to accept a few brown envelopes when you need him?
What happened to the planning reforms we were promised
Pathetic. I live in Barnet, we are overrun with idiots who dominate every planning discussion with pearl clutching about the parking. High Barnet is a shit hole dominated by cars and this would have been great.
The state needs the power to override decisions like this. “excessive height” might be a legitimate concern in a rural village. In a city like London, it’s ridiculous. Build up throughout London, as much as possible.
From the photo it could look quite nice, but if they use cheap bricks could be an eyesore.
The problem with these flats – apart from the build quality – is that they will be only 1 bedroom or 2 bedroom flats. Nothing for families.
Exactly!!!
local context – crap council housing from 60’s
There really should just be a message to all councils, nationwide, to tell them the have to offer up X% of their region for new housing developments / offer up enough space for X number of new houses. Give them all a deadline.
They get to choose the location and, long as it’s viable (criteria provided to them), it goes ahead without argument.
You could even build in a period for ‘local objection’ to let the NIMBYs argue amongst themselves. Someone will end up unhappy, but that can be the local councillor’s issue.
We need 600,000 new builds a year to meet demand and reduce house prices for young people. Which is never going to happen.
Guess we will just have to wait for declining birth rates to hit in two generations to afford a house for young people.
“17 spaces for tube passengers, including eight disabled bays. Residents, however, did not think this was sufficient to replace the station’s 177 car parking spaces, of which 162 are for commuter car parking.” they have a point about the parking though. Replacing 177 bays with 17 (+9 for residents) is barmy.
Nobody wants taller buildings, nobody wants to live further away from their favorite Greggs..
NIMBY’s are children and should be ignored.
There should be at least one major housing development within a 2-3 minute walk of each tube station, and it’s so fucking annoying that the only homes that ever end up getting built are 4-5 bed detached family houses for people who already have their foot on the fucking ladder
Here’s a solution – every development above 8 storeys goes directly to regional government for planning process + approval. Everything about 20 storeys goes to national government process + approval.
Private Eye had the story of a kids playground in a park (not in London), it had 3 noise complaints which resulted in a 17- year legal case. The complainers won and now the playground has to be bulldozed and everyone’s taxes are going up 97% to pay the legal bills.
It’s just impossible for anything to exist under such a system. At some point we need to do what the Chinese do – “the old people always complain, so they hold a hearing for them and then just ignore it”
Unpopular opinion but we either build up or build out. London is getting too small and we need more housing. Either we ignore nimbys or we threaten to expand out into the green belt. (I don’t think we should build out into the green belt btw but i think the threat of doing so could work.)
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