Man wages war with council over giant GLASS TUNNEL at his Regents Park home designed by architect behind the Gherkin skyscraper

Residents connected a Millionaire's Row successful London are divided implicit 1 owner's plans to nexus 2 houses with a wavy solid tunnel.

Mansour Namaki wants to nexus his Grade I-listed Regency villa - which was designed by James Burton successful 1828 - to the mews location that besides sits connected the land.

He has hired Gherkin operation decorator Ken Shuttleworth to plan a 'striking' solid walkway that volition articulation the 2 properties successful the Regent's Park Conservation Area.

But the plan of the passageway has caused upset with conservation trustees.

Camden Council antecedently refused to assistance gathering consent and Mr Namaki is present waiting for a determination connected his appeal.

According to the council, the walkway's 'sculptural signifier would beryllium a deliberately striking involution which would over-compete with the architectural forms of the historical gathering and would request attention.'

Richard Simpson, seat of Regent's Park Conservation Area Advisory Committee told MailOnline: 'We asked the assembly to cull it and they did. Now we are waiting for the entreaty decisions It's a precise absorbing location historically. 

'This walkway would beryllium a wholly inappropriate summation some successful presumption of its scale, arsenic it is 2 storeys, and its design. Its exotic curvy glazing which is truly rather inappropriate. We were besides acrophobic astir clime alteration - should we beryllium gathering solid houses? There are implicit heating concerns. We should each beryllium mounting an illustration and taking the clime situation into account.

'It's imaginable that an exertion for a walkway could beryllium accepted. We are not saying helium can't arsenic respective others person but they should beryllium overmuch much modest. The buildings request to beryllium respected.'

In a report, Historic England said the 'traditional separation' of the ville and mews would beryllium 'eroded' by the walkway.

It added: 'Its waved signifier which curves implicit the model connected the rear elevation of Gloucester Lodge is architecturally astatine likelihood with the orthogonal readying of the remainder of the terrace.

'The resulting clash of forms, and the protrusion of the gathering into the courtyard, is apt to deficiency discourse oregon subservience to the Grade I listed building. Historic England considers the effect to beryllium a harmful involution to an different highly important humanities composition.'

While immoderate residents connected the thoroughfare were sympathetic towards Mr Namaki's readying conflict - others accidental helium should cognize amended than to spell up against the choky readying rules astir Listed homes.

One pro-Camden Council nonmigratory said: 'The rules are determination for a reason. These houses are Listed and the remainder of america person to abide by the restrictions. If Historic England has refused to o.k. it past they volition person valid reasons for doing so.

'The plans aren't successful keeping with the architecture. If helium wants to physique thing modern helium shouldn't person bought a Listed location - they are precise strict successful the conservation country astir what tin and can't beryllium changed.'

However 1 neighbour said: 'A batch of radical did this benignant of enactment connecting their location to the mews earlier readying laws were tightened up.

'I would similar to bash it myself arsenic my teenage girl would similar to unrecorded successful the mews location but astatine the infinitesimal I'm not comfy with it arsenic the houses aren't connected.

'We person our store successful determination and we bash our laundry there. The bins are besides retired determination truthful we person to locomotion done the plot each clip we privation to instrumentality retired the bins which is horrible successful the winter.'

She said getting support to bash immoderate enactment connected the houses, which were built successful the 1800s, was 'very difficult'.

She said: 'We person six floors and we are not allowed to person a lift. We can't person aerial conditioning and we can't adjacent person the oven extractor truthful that the aerial is released extracurricular due to the fact that we aren't allowed to chopped into the walls.'

She said of Mr Namaki's plans: 'We don't truly person an contented with it. You wouldn't beryllium capable to spot the walkway from our location oregon from the street.'

Another nonmigratory said: 'People should beryllium allowed to bask their homes however they privation to.

'Other radical person built walkways betwixt their houses truthful they should beryllium capable to bash what they want. As agelong arsenic the operation isn't interfering with however overmuch airy the neighbours are getting I don't deliberation there's an contented with however it looks.'