Tottenham Hotspur’s plans for a 29-storey tower block near the club’s new stadium have been given the green light.

The football club has won permission to build 330 homes at 867-879 High Road, Tottenham, with just under a third (32 per cent) classed as affordable.

The development will feature seven blocks of flats between three and 29 storeys high, along with a café and public space.

Haringey Council’s planning chiefs described the proposed development as a “well designed, residential-led mixed-use scheme” that “respects the scale and character of the surrounding area”.

But at a meeting of the planning sub-committee on Monday (March 9), campaigners and councillors raised a number of concerns over the development.

Paul Burnham, from campaign group Haringey Defend Council Housing, claimed the scheme would price people who do not have a secure home out of the area.

He told the meeting only 11 per cent of the homes would be family-sized and criticised the council for allowing London Affordable Rent, which is more expensive than social rent, and shared ownership tenures, which require deposits.

Mr Burnham said: “Most people in Haringey do not have advance payments. That’s why the borough does not support using shared ownership.”

But Spurs’ head of planning Richard Serra said: “For the club, this is another chapter in the regeneration – not gentrification – of Tottenham.

“We find ourselves building more affordable housing than any other partner in the borough.”

Another spokesman for the club said the housing provision was “policy compliant”.

He pointed out the proportion of affordable homes – when considered by “habitable room” rather than unit – had been increased from the 25 per cent originally planned to 35 per cent.

Councillors were asked to approve detailed plans for two blocks and ‘outline’ plans for the rest of the development. More details of the outline plans will be submitted at a later stage.

Cllr Luke Cawley-Harrison (Liberal Democrat, Crouch End) raised concerns that the councillors were being asked to approve outline plans for the 29-storey tower.

He said: “This application should have been brought forward fully detailed. It is very difficult to make a decision on an outline that we know nothing about, other than that it is going to be big.”

Emma Williamson, Haringey’s assistant director of planning, told Cllr Cawley-Harrison that similar outline applications had been approved by the council, meaning it could not refuse to determine the current one.

Cllr Preston Tabois (Labour, Tottenham Green) criticised the lack of family homes on the development, which he said was the “bare minimum in percentage terms”.

He added: “I would like to ask them to reconsider and come back with something better than this.”

Cllr Tabois suggested the increase in affordable homes had been part of a negotiating tactic, in which you “start low and get what you want”.

When it came to the vote, five councillors supported the scheme, with three against and two abstentions.