Miliband v. Miliband: Energy Minister’s High Court judge’s wife turns Nimby to new apartment – Ed vows to “take over blockers, delayers, blockers”

Ed Miliband’s wife has objected to plans to plan a new apartment near her £3 million family home, despite her husband’s promise to “take over the blockers and blockers”.

High Court Justine Thornton, who married the Energy Secretary, wrote to the Camden Council, which is linked to the five-story building dedicated to land near her house in north London.

Although Mr Miliband had previously vowed to make the “delayer” part of his green energy and home construction agenda.

His party deputy Angela Rayner is also leading the government’s efforts to overhaul the program rules, building 300,000 new homes each year.

Labor said it plans to designate some previously untouched green land as a “gray belt” so that they can build more homes nationwide.

But Ms. Thornton said that in opposition to her, the proposed design was “too high and too large, given the background of surrounding houses and the wider reserve.”

She claimed she was “not opposed to the development principle, especially in the need of more housing.”

But other notable figures in affluent areas, including actor Benedict Cumberbatch, say they are worried that new developments could open doors to the influx of construction projects.

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HGG, the real estate company behind the plan, said the neighborhood (pictured) will deliver new housing on brownfield sites that are consistent with national and local planning policy objectives.

Mr. Cumberbatch and his wife, Sophie Hunter, are an opera director who raises concerns about privacy, adding that reconstruction will destroy the aesthetics of the streets [Victorian] Architectural heritage”.

“The approval of the plan will set a precedent for the region,” the couple said in a joint letter.

They were one of the many residents who opposed the proposal, which would lead to the replacement of villas in the 1930s.

Apartment developers rely on Labour’s latest planning rules to argue for additional homes, and local objections should not hinder the houses at Brownfield ruins.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has also been criticizing his criticism of “nimbys” and “blockers”, calling himself “Yimby” – yes, in my backyard.

HGG, the real estate company behind the plan, said the neighborhood will “provide new housing on brownfield sites in line with national and local planning policy objectives,” in line with the priorities of updated planning guidelines introduced by Labor last year.

Labour said in its program policy framework that the Brownfield plan should be approved unless it causes significant harm”.

Ms. Thornton, 54, married Mr. Miliband, 55, after meeting him in 2002, and currently lives in a house in north London.

Apartment developers rely on Labour’s latest planning rules to argue for additional homes, and local objections should not hinder homes on brownfield sites

Sources close to Ms. Thornton said: “Justine Thornton made it clear that she had no objection to the new housing principle on site. She was referring to a specific design”

The two have two sons and were born in 2009 and 2010.

Ms. Thornton was later appointed to judge after 25 years as a barrister.

She was called to the Bar Association in 1994 and became KC in 2016, specializing in environmental law.

Sources close to Ms. Thornton said: “Justine Thornton made it clear that she had no objection to the new housing principle on site. She was referring to a specific design.

But, Shadow House Secretary Kevin Hollinrake said: ‘Red Ed joins an exclusive club that is reluctant to object to housing developments in his area, along with 14 other serving cabinet ministers.

“It is incredible that the Energy Minister promised to “smash Nimbis”, but, like labor, it’s just another situation I’m talking about, not doing it like I do.”