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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Miliband’s wife and Benedict Cumberbatch object to Camden flat development

Dame Justine Thornton, wife of Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband, has joined other Camden residents in objecting to plans to demolish a 1930s villa and replace it with flats. (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Archive)

The wife of a senior Cabinet minister has objected to a proposed redevelopment near their north London home amid a Government push to sweep aside “blockers” in the planning system.

Dame Justine Thornton, a High Court judge and the wife of Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, said plans to replace a 1930s villa in Camden with six flats were “too tall, too bulky and too dense for its plot”.

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