Please support our Legal Challenge.

We are a group of residents who have been campaigning since 2021 to stop a developer from building new homes on the home of the badger sett. This area is a precious strategic green corridor and home to a plethora of flora and fauna. A private landowner has applied to build 3 blocks of apartments and an access road. This has been planned on a small strip of woodland that lies between residential homes and the railway. This will cause destruction of the woodland which is home to a family of badgers and other animals, which include protected trees.

We started a petition in 2021 to protect this woodland and have amassed 31K signatures to date. The landowner has put forward a badger rehoming plan. But this will not work as it moves the badger sett closer to the main road. This development sets a dangerous precedent. The badger sett has been there for decades in an undisturbed location. Now their world is to be destroyed and they are due to be forced out of their home by exclusion. There is no guarantee of success. The new residents will destroy the badgers with their disturbance, music, fireworks, dogs, artificial light. The wildlife of the embankment and back gardens will be devastated by the development especially by light spill and effectively the strategic green corridor will be cut.

Despite 31k+ signatures and 100s of objections against the local proposal, the local council has now approved the plans to build these new homes on the site.

We appreciate the need for new homes, but this area of Harrow is now over developed. Many new builds are unaffordable and similar blocks stand empty, that can be perfectly repurposed for affordable housing. The London borough is also ahead of its house building target.

Our only course of action now is to bring a legal challenge against the decision.

We have brought together a brilliant legal team who will charge £1,800 to advise on whether we have grounds to bring a judicial review of the council’s decision.

Please donate now and share with family, friends, and colleagues. Together we can help protect this Badger sett.

Link to the petition here Save the Badgers

A HUGE THANK YOU

The residents of Pinner Road and the Gardens