Villagers living in a Kingsbury conservation area claim new football pitches will “wreck” their peaceful lifestyle.

Kingsbury High School, in Princes Avenue, is planning to enter a deal with Goals Soccer Centres to build eight Astroturf football pitches on their site, as well as a bar area, which will be open until 11pm.

But homeowners living near the school in Roe Green, which has been a conservation area for 90 years, say floodlights beaming into their gardens and noise pollution will be “unbearable”.

Stevie Lang, a record producer living in nearby Goldsmith Lane, says she feared she would be “pushed out” of her special village.

She said: “It’s such a rare place down here, but these proposals are a money making racket. The school is being greedy.

“Parking around here is already bad enough, so imagine what it would be like with a new sports centre?”

She added that hundreds of rare animals are always spotted in the area, from wild bats to owls and foxes, and the thought of losing them was “devastating”.

Priyanka Mitra says the new pitches would mean she would no longer let her four-year-old son play in her garden, which backs directly on to where they would be.

She said: “They say they are going to put high fences up, but there’s still a worry because the men playing won’t be CRB checked and anyone can climb through, especially after drinking in the bar.

“We moved here because it’s safe and secure, and ultimately very peaceful. This is just going to make me a prisoner in my own home.”

Jeanne Staple, 84, moved into her house in Roe End in 1974, because of the area's “tranquillity”.

She said: “This proposal would be like having a fete every day of the year. There will be noisy spectators and people will get rowdy after drinking in the bar. The school already has pitches kids can play on.”

The school is planning a 35-year lease arrangement with Goals Soccer Centres for the £1.5million project.

The new pitches, which the school hope will be ready by summer 2013, will be available to students free of charge until 5pm and then open to the public at a charge of £60 per hour until 11pm.

At a consultation about the proposals last night, headmaster Jeremy Waxman refused to address the group as a whole and said the “setting was inappropriate”.

But he did try to ease the concerns of individual groups and promised to hold a second meeting.

He admitted to the Harrow Times that he too would have concerns if he was a resident in the village, but defended the proposals.

“I’m sympathetic to their concerns. Kingsbury has long been starved of sports facilities and we will take adequate care to help protect the wildlife in the area, also ensuring that nothing like parking, noise and lighting impacts the lives of the residents.

“It isn’t a money making racket. These proposals were never designed as an income source for the school.”

In response to concerns that the new bar would attract “rowdy drunken people”, he said that statistics show most people prefer soft drinks as opposed to alcoholic drinks after playing sports.

Also defending the proposals was Keith Mitchell, national development manager for Goals.

Mr Mitchell said: “We promise not to take the residents' concerns lightly, but we just want to show them that this would be very beneficial.

“There will also be a new car park built to ensure that no-one has to block any resident’s drives.”