NEIGHBOURS have given an overwhelming thumbs down to plans to link their road with “monstrous” new houses.

People in Weirdale Avenue, Whetstone, are furious about proposals to build 1,200 homes on their doorstep at the nearby North London Business Park site.

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Developers Comer Homes also want to create a new pedestrian and emergency services access road from Weirdale Avenue and Ashborne Avenue.

Grandmother Sue Scott fears it will cause her narrow street to become choked with parked cars.

The 67-year-old, who has lived on the road for 32 years, said: “When we first moved here it was nice, quiet and calm. The kids used to play out in the street.

“But my worry is if they open the access it will cause traffic to snowball. At the moment, we’ve already got cars parked on both side of the road and there sometimes isn’t space to pass through.

“I don’t think this is necessary. Our roads are not suitable for this. It will completely destroy the lifestyle we’ve had for decades.”

She also fears cars caught up in jams in nearby Russell Lane could end up using the Weirdale Avenue and Ashborne Avenue loop as a cut-through.

Martin Berliner, 55, said: “It will change our way of life. Right now it’s a quiet road but it won’t be anymore.

“It will turn our suburban street into an urban one. That will be the difference between night and day. “There will also be more cars on the road – where are they meant to park?”

John Humphreys, who has lived in Weirdale Avenue since 1953, said: “I am worried that bollards they put in to stop cars going through will disappear, so it won’t be just for emergency services and pedestrians. That would put us in a ridiculous situation.”

The business park once housed a factory which employees were allowed to access through a manned gate, but this was closed off in the 1970s.

There were plans to allow cars to pass through in the 1960s but this was rejected because it was considered “too dangerous”.

Meanwhile people also say the plans to build the homes are “far too enormous” because there is not enough infrastructure.

Paul Hartland, a project manager, said: “They say this will benefit residents but I just don’t see it how putting a new village there, without infrastructure, will help anyone.

“The height of some of these buildings is excessive too – it will be a monstrosity.

“We can barely get out of our road as it is sometimes, this will create more traffic. Weirdale and Ashborne will become rat-runs.

“I am not opposed to new houses being built, but I am opposed to the high-rise nature of it and of open access.”

He says he would consider moving – but fears the development could lower the cost of his house.

He added: “At the moment, 95 per cent of the UK is not built up so why are we choking streets that can’t handle it?

“I am not keen on seeing green belt disappear but there must be more brownfield sites in less congested areas.

“This will commit us to ten years of misery.”

The Times Series has requested comment from Comer Homes.