Dave Davies supports attempt to stop arcade home to quirky shops being demolished
“God save little shops,” sang the Kinks on their 1968 single The Village Green Preservation Society. More than half a century later, that wish lives on for the founder member and guitarist Dave Davies, who is fighting to save a historic shopping arcade near where he grew up in north
London, which is expected to be demolished by developers and replaced with high-rise flats.
The still-touring Davies has stepped into a battle being repeated across the
UK as investors seize on struggling high streets in towns and suburbs that have been battered by online shopping and rising business rates, and seek to turn them into housing.