THE narrow streets of Highgate Village face being clogged up for three years by heavy lorries carrying rubble after the mystery owners of the Witanhurst mansion were told they could start building work.
The owners, who have insisted on anonymity, have won a Whitehall planning appeal to significantly alter the Highgate West Hill property, which is the capital’s second biggest home, after Buckingham Palace.
The proposals were thrown out last year by Camden Council’s planning committee. At the time, councillors sought to find legal reasons to turn down a scheme that some said, off the record, were “immoral” for the amount of environmental damage it would cause during construction. They also questioned the need for the owners to dig up the front courtyard to build car parking for 24 cars, a gym and swimming pool, a sauna, massage parlour, and a hair and beauty salon.
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