Plans to build nearly 300 homes next to High Barnet Station have been rejected amid fears over the scheme’s scale.

Developer Barratt London and Transport for London’s property company Places for London submitted plans to build five blocks, containing 283 homes and 567 square metres of commercial space, on the tube station’s 160-space car park and adjoining storage spaces.

However, Barnet Council ’s strategic planning committee rejected the plan when it met on Monday.

The proposal, which would have risen up to 11 storeys in height, included 40 per cent affordable housing .

But Sue Baker, a Labour councillor for Barnet Vale ward, told the committee she had received an “overwhelming amount of negativity” to the plans from residents. She listed the loss of the car park as “problema

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