One of the main campaigners against plans to build on the site of Hendon Football Club said this week that Barnet Council was disregarding how much traffic the scheme would generate.

Dorothy Badrick, chief executive of the UK Open Space Foundation, said plans to build on the Hendon FC site, off Claremont Road, Cricklewood, would create tailbacks on a road which has 'no room to swing a trike'.

She said: "In proposed plans for the Hendon FC site, there are plans to reconfigure Claremont Road and put in a right-hand turn lane as an entrance to the proposed development. Exactly where will the lane go? There isn't room to swing a trike."

Early plans so far are for three blocks of flats, the tallest five storeys high, and one nursing home on a section of the land. Space for 244 parking spaces is also being proposed.

Ms Badrick's position is that the narrow and already busy Claremont Road will not be able to sustain all the traffic generated by the development.

Citing an environmental impact report written for the council by Bellhouse Joseph, the developers involved in the Cricklewood regeneration scheme, Ms Badrick said: "Their highway network impact analysis states that the development will not have any significant impact on the operation of the Claremont Road/ Cricklewood Lane/ Lichfield Road and Claremont Road/ Tilling Road junctions, which already appear to be operating above capacity and accepted thresholds, respectively'. So these ghost 162 people with 244 ghost cars are not going to impact on the junctions at each of the ends of their road that already have huge tailbacks at peak times?"

The council will share an estimated £10million with Hendon FC chairman Ivor Arbiter if the sale goes ahead. Councillor Mike Freer, cabinet member for value and effectiveness, said these concerns would go before Barnet's planning committee.

He said: "These issues are dealt with by planning now, and the planning and environment committee will undertake their own study, although they may well look at the Bellhouse Joseph report too. We just have to see how the application goes."