Sherlock and Homes: Benedict Cumberbatch and Ed Miliband's wife battle plans for £5.6million six storey block of flats near their north London properties

Sherlock prima Benedict Cumberbatch has joined a neighbourhood bid to artifact plans for a caller £5.6million six-storey artifact of flats successful northbound London.

The Oscar-nominated histrion is among residents successful Dartmouth Park urging Camden Council to cull existent proposals to alteration an existing spot called Lamorna - besides including erstwhile Labour person Ed Miliband's woman Dame Justine Thornton.

Cumberbatch, 48, raised concerns astir the planned replacement of the two-storey, redbrick 1930s spot presently lasting successful the territory not acold from Hampstead Heath.

The actor, whose films see The Imitation Game and The Power Of The Dog, has a location successful the country with his theatre manager woman Sophie Turner. 

The strategy suggesting the existent gathering beryllium knocked down and replaced with a caller six-storey artifact has been enactment guardant by developers HGG London, the Camden New Journal reported. 

Responses some successful absorption and enactment person been sent to and shared online by the Labour-run Camden authorization which is yet to marque a determination connected the proposals. 

A study by BPS Chartered Surveyors for the assembly estimated the planned six caller flats would beryllium worthy a full £5.6milion, ranging from £700,000 to £1.4million each.

Cumberbatch's submission states: 'Approval would acceptable a precedent. For example, could I present demolish my spot and regenerate it with flats and not necessitate the aforesaid extended readying approval?

'Or worse, the properties located down this connection could use to beryllium demolished with an adjacent bigger spot that this connection is being submitted to signifier a mega development.' 

He and his woman provided a missive arguing the new-look gathering would beryllium retired of keeping with Dartmouth Park's heritage.

They added: 'You lone person to look astatine the adjacent properties to spot the quality successful style, materials, colours and feel.'

Firms down the readying exertion picture it connected their website arsenic 'an breathtaking caller residential development'.

Maddox Planning, which has been moving alongside HGG London, said: 'We are thrilled to contiguous this high-quality task that volition present much-needed caller homes successful a well-connected and vibrant area.

'Our squad is excited to stock with you the innovative proposals we’ve designed to genuinely heighten the area, making it an adjacent much charismatic spot to live.'

Among the different critics, however, has been lawyer Justine Thornton, who lives adjacent with her husband, the Environment Secretary Ed Miliband. 

She wrote: 'No objection to the rule of redevelopment, peculiarly successful the discourse of the request for much housing. However, the plan appears to beryllium excessively tall, excessively bulky and excessively dense.

'This exertion presents different accidental for the assembly to show its committedness to the proviso of sympathetically designed lodging by acknowledging the payment of redevelopment whilst rejecting this design.'

Other responses sent successful by chap residents see comments specified as: 'It indispensable beryllium much sustainable to renovate/extend Lamorna utilizing the existing location and materials to upgrade it alternatively than the full process of demolition and construction.'

Another contributor said: 'The connection is oversized, bulky, pretentious and does not acceptable comfortably successful the thoroughfare scene.'

The assembly was besides told successful a antithetic submission to its consultation process: 'I person nary objections to the connection to demolish Lamorna. It is an disfigured modern location with nary character.

'However, the caller exertion to physique a artifact of six flats positive basement is excessively bulky and volition destruct the consciousness of the place.

'Grant support if you indispensable but restrict the caller improvement to 4 floors astatine astir to support immoderate benignant of harmony with the neighbouring houses.'

Meanwhile, Camden councillor Camron Aref-Adib said: 'I would similar to stock my enactment for immoderate of the concerns raised by residents regarding this readying application.

'My superior concerns subordinate to the imaginable nonaccomplishment of airy and privateness for neighbouring homes and I inquire that planners look intimately astatine specified risk, seeking the due mitigations.

'I question assurances that the developer volition perpetrate to the highest imaginable standards successful minimising c emissions during demolition, and to precocious standards of vigor ratio and biology sustainability successful the projected caller building.'

Developers HGG London person said successful their exertion to Camden Council: 'The improvement is an fantabulous accidental to amended the economic, social, and biology conditions of the country and it is successful accordance with the improvement policies connected housing.

'Notably, the improvement volition present caller lodging connected a brownfield tract successful an accessible location.'

The projected caller gathering would 'improve the section townscape' and supply 'much needed 2 chamber and household lodging provision', the institution added.