PROTESTERS say it is a “scandal” that developers want to build a seventeen storey tower that do not meet affordable housing conditions.


Plans include rebuilding the current Premier house with 122 new homes in 102-124 Station Road Edgware, as well as a new entrance to nearby Church Way and the redevelopment of a car park for the tower block.


Abe Hayeem, the development representative for Canons Park residents association said members do not know when it will discussed before a planning committee.


He said: “It is such an outcry, it is a dreadful scheme, and they are rethinking a private development and not affordable housing. They should create something that is more interesting for Edgware, more facilities like shopping and a cinema perhaps for people. The borough cannot get away with private housing, it is unfair for Edgware.


“Barnet already has huge developments in Colindale, Grahame Park, Edgware Road already. It is an absolute scandal there is no affordable housing for ordinary people. How can they allow an application with no affordable housing?”


“We need more council houses. There is not enough car paring, they want to change it from 400 to 95 car parking spaces for 400 flats.”


In May 2014, Barnet Council refused plans for a building up to 19 storeys with 165 flats were refused as the report read the application was “not in accordance with London plan policies” and said the applicant should include “an affordable housing provision.”


The report also added that the height, scale and design would represent a “cramped form of development.”


Parish Patel, who has owned Derek Clarke pharmacy on Station Road for more than 30 years, said: “There needs to be some sort of traffic planning before they erect another building. I have no objection to building new homes, but more homes means more cars, so where will all this traffic going to go?


“When the Broadwalk centre opened, they still did not have pedestrian crossing for years after, and to cross the road I had to run for it and take my own life in my hands.


“I told them there would be more traffic, but they didn’t listen, they said they knew what they are doing, but this is stupidity.


Andrew Dismore AM, who has been following these plans said: “The Premier House development looks pretty well finished from the outside, the new application is generating a lot of opposition.”


Barnet Council told the Times Series the application would be discussed by the Planning Committee on Monday May 23.


A council spokesman said: “The council’s Planning Committee is due to consider an application for Premier Place in Edgware.


“All planning applications are considered on their merits and it is for the Planning Committee to decide if an application is given approval. Residents were also able to comment on the application during a period of consultation.”