Actor Tom Conti has called on neighbour Thierry Henry to leave his Hampstead property rather than demolish it for a larger home to accommodate a 40ft-high fish tank.
The Street Dance 2 actor has predicted disruption on a “nightmare” scale should Camden council approve proposals to level the football star’s £10 million home.
The Scottish actor, whose garden backs onto Henry’s, and seven others have called on planning officials to kick out the former Arsenal captain’s plans.
Henry’s 25,000-litre aquarium would spiral from a swimming pool, bar and cinema in the basement to the master bedroom on the second floor.
Conti, 70, said: “If someone wants a large house why do they not just buy one somewhere else? Why do they have to knock it down? It causes such disruption. The noise will just be colossal because he will have to drill down. It’s an absolute nightmare.
“The problem is he wants to build this enormous fish tank and I suppose he is going to have to build a whole new house so he can house that.”
But Conti does not have high hopes of being able to influence the decision after neighbours John Alderton and Pauline Collins, who starred in TV’s Upstairs Downstairs, lost their long battle against a neighbour’s basement development. “It’s very irritating.”
