Some neighbors are opposing planned renovations to a home in Stanhope Gardens, London, where members of Pink Floyd lived in the band’s early days in the 1960s.
Shivan Iswaran, a Singaporean developer from Kensington bought the dwelling, as well as the one next to it, for £1.2 million each, site unseen, last September.
Developers have submitted to Haringey Council a proposal to build a two-story extension at the rear of the properties.
The council has yet to make a decision on that work, but preliminary changes to the properties have upset neighbors who say the changes will render the buildings “completely out of keeping” with the rest of the street. They’ve submitted 30 letters of opposition to the plans.
Floyd’s Roger Waters and Nick Mason moved into the property in September 1963, joined a year later by Syd Barrett. Rick Wright also lived there.
The property was owned by Mike Leonard — the band briefly called itself Leonard’s Lodgers — a lecturer at Hornsey College of Art who was instrumental in developing the band’s trademark light shows.
Leonard died last year, which prompted the sale.
