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Some neighbors are opposing planned renovations to a home in Stanhope Gardens, London, where members of Pink Floyd lived in the band’s early days in the 1960s.

Shivan Iswaran, a Singaporean developer from Kensington bought the dwelling, as well as the one next to it, for £1.2 million each, site unseen, last September.

Developers have submitted to Haringey Council a proposal to build a two-story extension at the rear of the properties.

The council has yet to make a decision on that work, but preliminary changes to the properties have upset neighbors who say the changes will render the buildings “completely out of keeping” with the rest of the street. They’ve submitted 30 letters of opposition to the plans.

Floyd’s Roger Waters and Nick Mason moved into the property in September 1963, joined a year later by Syd Barrett. Rick Wright also lived there.

The property was owned by Mike Leonard — the band briefly called itself Leonard’s Lodgers — a lecturer at Hornsey College of Art who was instrumental in developing the band’s trademark light shows.

Leonard died last year, which prompted the sale.

Pink Floyd Music Publishers, the band’s music publishing branch since 1970’s “Atom Heart Mother,” has partnered with Imagem Music U.K.

Imagem Music will administer the songs of Floyd’s David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright within the Floyd catalog. Roger Waters‘s work will remain with Warner/Chappell.

The agreement, which took effect July 1, also includes the solo output of Gilmour, Mason and Wright.

The band said in a statement, “We wanted all the flexibility we have now combined with creativity, enthusiasm and the ability to punch its weight for us in the digital world.

“We met and liked the team and we all feel that we are going to get the sort of personal service we need. We are very much looking forward to it.”

Pink Floyd is big business. The band has sold 250 million records worldwide.

Imagem was founded in 2008 by Group CEO André de Raaff. It has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels and Amsterdam.