{"id":235216,"date":"2023-09-08T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=235216"},"modified":"2023-09-08T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:03:10","slug":"dame-emma-thompson-joins-hampstead-planning-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/dame-emma-thompson-joins-hampstead-planning-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Emma Thompson joins Hampstead planning campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dame Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter join Hampstead campaign to stop crypto couple&#8217;s plan to build four-bed home likened to &#8216;three-storey industrial shed&#8217; which is &#8216;out of keeping&#8217; with the local aesthetic<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Daniel and Sendi Young proposed their design for a modern home in\u00a0<\/strong><span>Hampstead<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The four-bed home would be built next to a cricket club and feature a sun terrace<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>British stars Dame Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter have banded together to stop a &#8216;three-storey industrial shed&#8217; being built in their leafy London neighbourhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crypto currency chiefs Daniel and Sendi Young, aged 45 and 39, proposed plans to demolish a 1960s one-story property in Hampstead, north London,\u00a0and replace it with an ultra-modern aluminum and glass house, which the actors claim would be better suited to Malibu.<\/p>\n<p>The campaigning celebrities have claimed it is &#8216;the wrong design in the wrong place&#8217;, citing conservation concerns about the affluent suburb&#8217;s &#8216;arts and crafts-style&#8217; architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The proposed four-bedroom home, which would be built next to Hampstead cricket Club pitch, would feature a sun terrace, an open-plan ground floor kitchen, living and dining area, a green-roof system and ground-source heat pumps, according to The Times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75208555-12495457-image-a-21_1694167676873.jpg\" height=\"317\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The proposed four-bedroom home would feature a sun terrace, an open-plan ground floor kitchen, living and dining area, a green-roof system and ground-source heat pumps<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75208611-12495457-image-a-19_1694167600504.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dame Emma Thompson, 64,\u00a0signed a letter to the Camden council&#8217;s planning committee objecting to the modern home<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75208683-12495457-image-a-20_1694167663864.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Actor Greg Wise, who is a trained architect, played John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility, which also starred his wife Emma Thompson<\/p>\n<p>Actor Greg Wise, who is a trained architect, played John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility, which also starred his wife Dame Emma, wrote to Camden council&#8217;s planning committee in a letter signed by the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Wise, a trained architect who lives nearby the plot with Dame Emma,<span>\u00a0said: &#8216;I have no inherent issues with modern design, but, like planting trees: the right design in the right place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This is the wrong design in the wrong place,&#8217; wrote Wise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It would fit in perfectly in Malibu, but not in our conservation area.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Nanny McPhee star Dame Emma, 64, has form in objecting to planning proposals after joining another star-studded campaign group, which included Dame Janet Suzman, James Corden, Damian Lewis, Mark Rylance and Tom Conti protested against a new Tesco in nearby Belsize Park.<\/p>\n<p>A six-month campaign led to the supermarket&#8217;s proposal being shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Downton Abbey star Jim Carter and his wife, Imelda Staunton, who has starred in Harry Potter and The Crown, also sent a stern letter to Camden council with their concerns about the crypto-couple&#8217;s proposals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75208571-12495457-image-a-22_1694167683142.jpg\" height=\"316\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The three-storey design would be built next to Hampstead cricket Club pitch<\/p>\n<p>The celebrity couple, who have lived in the area for 30 years wrote: &#8216;The view from the cricket pitch will be a large, looming three-storey aluminum and glass industrial shed, which is totally out of keeping.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>They couple&#8217;s primary concern was the threat to environmental conservation of the area, and their ability to enjoy a garden which maintains a &#8216;provision of habitat&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter they wrote: &#8216;We garden organically and sustainably with wildlife at the front of our minds in terms of planting and provision of habitat,&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The couple added: &#8216;The proposed building represents a serious threat to our ability to enjoy our garden and a serious threat to the plants and creatures who share it with us.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Veteran actor Jim Broadbent, 74, who has starred in scores of films including Hot Fuzz and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, voiced the concern that the\u00a0 development would &#8216;set a dangerous precedent for future applications which would radically alter the unique character of the area&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75208717-12495457-image-a-23_1694167689845.jpg\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Imelda Staunton, who has played the late Queen in The Crown, also sent a stern letter to Camden council with her concerns<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75208757-12495457-image-m-26_1694167956913.jpg\" height=\"869\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Downton Abbey star Jim Carter has lived in the area with his wife, Imelda Staunton, for 30 years<\/p>\n<p>Actor Richard Clifford, known for Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and and Frankenstein (1994), lives with his partner Derek Jacobi in the area, and said the house &#8216;would [be] more appropriate in a very modern industrial estate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Designs for the home have been tweaked by Savills, the agents for the application, following a consultation meeting in March.<\/p>\n<p>Scenario Architecture attempted to assure critics by describing the proposal as a sustainable family home and stated that it would not be visible from the conservation area.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman from the design company told The Times: &#8216;Conscious of the arts and crafts-style which is a prominent feature of the local area, the new dwelling does not try and compete with this but rather offers a modern building that is lightweight yet durable, and clearly of its time.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>They said that seeking to copy or pastiche the pre-established buildings would be the wrong approach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/08\/11\/75208835-12495457-image-a-25_1694167704405.jpg\" height=\"993\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Veteran actor Jim Broadbent, 74 who has starred in Hot Fuzz and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, voiced the concern that the development would &#8216;set a dangerous precedent&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In a pointed statement, they also said the company would be &#8216;disappointed&#8217; if the council were pressured under the influence of the &#8216;celebrity angle&#8217; behind the objections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A high level of objections to a contemporary design in a highly urban setting in London is very common and not surprising. We always design respectful to the neighbours, but ultimately the driver is planning policy, not personal subjective opinion,&#8217; added the spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Young, who is the Europe managing director of US crypto-currency firm Ripple, and her husband, who is a consulting director at AI specialist Future WorkForce, were approached for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12495457\/Dame-Emma-Thompson-Imelda-Staunton-Jim-Carter-join-Hampstead-campaign-stop-crypto-couples-plan-build-four-bed-home-likened-three-storey-industrial-shed-keeping-local-aesthetic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dame Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter join Hampstead campaign to stop crypto couple&#8217;s plan to build four-bed home likened to &#8216;three-storey industrial shed&#8217; which is &#8216;out of keeping&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dame Emma Thompson joins Hampstead planning campaign - lovemainstream.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/dame-emma-thompson-joins-hampstead-planning-campaign\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dame Emma Thompson joins Hampstead planning campaign - lovemainstream.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dame Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton and Jim Carter join Hampstead campaign to stop crypto couple&#8217;s plan to build four-bed home likened to &#8216;three-storey industrial shed&#8217; 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