More than 108,000 people have signed a petition calling for homes to be put before profit on the West Hendon Estate.

The petition - which can be found here - has gathered an additional 30,000 signatures since this morning, and focuses on the estate’s regeneration scheme, which will see people moved out of their homes to make way for 2,000 new flats.

The scheme has received widespread attention – including from BBC One programme The One Show - in the wake of a two week public inquiry, which ended last week, into Barnet Council’s use of compulsory purchase orders on the estate.

The petition calls on Barnet Council and developers Barratt Metropolitan to ensure all tenants are allowed to remain and be rehoused on the estate.

Addressed to the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, Hendon MP Matthew Offord, the council and the developers, it also calls for non-secure tenants to be granted secure or flexible tenancies, and for tenants to see a copy of the developers’ viability report, which determined the percentage of social housing on the estate and which has not been made public.

It concludes by stating that if the viability report proves the current level of social housing on the new development cannot be maintained, that any tenant that must leave should be housed as close to their support networks in West Hendon as possible, and to be given a secure tenancy.

Councillor Richard Cornelius, Conservative leader of the council, has said the scheme is in the public interest, and that it "will transform the estate and will provide high quality and attractive new homes at a time when public finances are incredibly tight.”

West Hendon councillor Adam Langleben said he was not surprised at the level of support the petition had received.

The Labour councillor added: “It can’t be in the public interest to lose our housing stock on this magnitude.”