Archive for the ‘Development & Planning’

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    Tesco Essex Arms development approved
    Artists impression of new store... where did the cars go? After twice rejecting Tesco’s plans for the former Essex Arms site on Forest Road, Waltham Forest council approved the Express store and 17 flats at a meeting on Tuesday night (2nd Feb). The Waltham Forest Guardian was at the meeting and reports that the only planning committee members to vote against the...
    by blackhorseroad at February 3rd, 2010 at 11:02 am
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    Stop the Essex Wharf tower blocks
    Join local residents at Hackney Town Hall from 6pm on Wednesday 3rd Feb to demonstrate opposition to plans for 10 storey flats on the site! This Planning Application proposes four 7-10 storey high-rise high density residential tower blocks on the River Lee Navigation opposite North Millfields, in the Borough of Waltham Forest. It will loom over Walthamstow Marshes and...
    by blackhorseroad at February 2nd, 2010 at 05:02 pm
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    L&Q ignore residents, councillors and bidders for Walthamstow Dogs
    On Saturday (16th Jan) in a tiny backroom at The Holiday Inn, London & Quadrant unveiled their plans to turn Walthamstow’s iconic stadium into high density housing. Touted as an opportunity to listen to local views and adapt the plans accordingly, the “consultation” was only open for 2 brief 4 hour slots. Despite miserable weather residents turned...
    by blackhorseroad at January 22nd, 2010 at 02:01 pm
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    Tesco submit 3rd planning application
    There’s an inevitability about the third application submitted by Tesco for the conversion of the former Essex Arms pub site into a four storey Express store/residential flats. View all three applications so far Latest (18/11/09) planning application Last month BAG spoke to the council planning officer who refused Tesco’s second application. He expressed frustration...
    by blackhorseroad at November 25th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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    Essex Arms Tesco Express plans refused
    View Larger Map Waltham Forest Council have surprisingly refused the latest plans for a Tesco Express and flats on the Forest Road former Essex Arms site. On Thursday (8th Oct) they published 14 detailed reasons for turning down the application. Speaking to BAG the planning office expressed frustration that agents and architects for Tesco did not work closely with the...
    by blackhorseroad at October 13th, 2009 at 06:10 pm
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    Tesco Express plans resubmitted
    UPDATED (SUN 26th JULY): Back in December Tesco withdrew their plans to replace the Essex Arms pub with a Express Store and flats. A few weeks ago the fences were taken down, and residents have complained that the building has been occupied by squatters. Many people have questioned why Tesco allowed the site to become so run-down and such a haven for crime, rats, and...
    by blackhorseroad at July 22nd, 2009 at 02:07 pm
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    Liaquat Ali: E17’s leading satirist
    COMICAL ALI Swift, Hicks, Hislop… all notable satirists but did any of them ever pen anything as comical as the letter Liaquat Ali posted through residents letterboxes today. A little background adds to the humour. Plans to turn St James Street Library into a drug treatment centre were scrapped on Tuesday when four Labour councillors realised they couldn’t...
    by blackhorseroad at July 3rd, 2009 at 03:07 am
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    Drug Centre scrapped? Library to be Sold
    The Waltham Forest Guardian reports that the drug centre described by Council Leader Chris Robbins as a “wonderful addition” to the local community has been scrapped. Faced with continued protests from ungrateful locals who perversely thought having a library was wonderful, Cllr Robbins announced the building will not now be a treatment centre. Any residents ready...
    by blackhorseroad at July 2nd, 2009 at 06:07 am
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    “Gimme Cinema” say Jagger & local kids
    We are very late in reporting this but Mick Jagger has given his support to the campaign by Walthamstow residents to save the Granada/EMD Cinema in Hoe Street. Jagger said: “Cinemas and live venues like The Granada in Walthamstow where the Stones played in the early days, learning our craft on the way, are the lifeblood of our cultural history. “They helped launched...
    by blackhorseroad at June 30th, 2009 at 06:06 am
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    St James Street Drug Centre plan to go ahead?
    On the 2nd of March Coppermill School played host to the first ever Community Council with a queue to get in! An eagle eyed regular had spotted the council trying to sneak though the conversion of the Library building into a drug centre, hidden away at the end of an economic report. Residents many of whom have campaigned for 2 years collecting 1000’s of petitions...
    by blackhorseroad at June 2nd, 2009 at 10:06 pm
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    Willowfield Planning brief ignores residents views
    Back in March BAG organised a well attended public meeting about the propsed Willowfield school development. At that meeting Cllr Robbins promised to convey to cabinet the unanimous opposition of all stakeholders (residents and parents and teachers) to plans for the school to be higher than 3 stories, and for housing either next to or above the school. On Wednesday 19th...
    by blackhorseroad at May 19th, 2009 at 05:05 pm
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    600 residents hold vigil to save EMD Cinema
    OTHER REPORTS ON THE PROTEST Walthamstow Guardian coverage as “600 residents protest at council plans” McGuffins organised the vigil and took pictures on the night BBC News report on “Fight to save Hitchcock cinema” Telegraph piece on the fight to “save cinema where Alfred Hitchcock saw first films” The Independent tell the story of...
    by blackhorseroad at April 21st, 2009 at 02:04 pm
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    Books, Not drugs – Council hides conversion of Library into drugs centre
    The council have succeeded in uniting parents, residents, and campaign groups under the banner “Give our children books, not drugs!” Protest outside the library building, Coppermill Lane, 10am Wednesday 18 February. Children especially welcome. Bring placards and banners on the “Books, not drugs” theme if you wish. As you may have already heard,...
    by blackhorseroad at February 16th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
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    Has anyone got time to send a quick email?
    Can anyone spare a few moments to send a brief email including your name and address objecting to plans to de-designate Leyton Cricket Ground as a public space? (map) Leyton Cricket Ground and the open space around it have been in existence since 1885 and are regularly used for local sporting and youth activities. The council is legally bound to tell local people about...
    by blackhorseroad at February 16th, 2009 at 05:02 pm
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    St James St. Library to become Drug treatment centre
    The story of the closure of St James Street Library already reads like the definitive work on how a council can best show utter contempt for residents. After the initial illegal closure, ignoring a 1,200 strong petition, and doctoring community council proposals to fund a feasibility study into reopening, the council have buried new plans for the building in the appendix...
    by blackhorseroad at February 9th, 2009 at 05:02 pm
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    Tesco Express still planned @ The Essex Arms
      In December Tesco withdrew their application to build an Express store on the former Essex Arms site (see withdrawal on council site) on Forest Road (2-3 minutes walk from Blackhorse Road tube). While many celebrated Tesco’s apparent withdrawal, others were disappointed the company wouldn’t be redeveloping the currently unloved site.   To clarify the...
    by blackhorseroad at February 9th, 2009 at 05:02 pm
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    Food for thought
    Found this nice little blog that offers musings about the relationship between transport and planning. It has this to say about Walthamstow: Walthamstow is a suburb in North East London. Since it is the terminus of the Victoria Line and has suburban rail servcies too is is one of the most accessibe places in London. However most of it was developed in the late nineteenth...
    by blackhorseroad at November 4th, 2008 at 01:11 pm
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    Banishing To Let Signs
    Estate agents using the houses they’ve sold or let as free advertising space is a common grumble from Walthamstow residents. Aside from the visual clutter, it gives the impression that the area is transitory with people constantly moving in and out. The law states that Estate Agents must remove boards within 14 days of a property being sold or let, and Waltham Forest...
    by blackhorseroad at October 11th, 2008 at 09:10 am
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    Repeat after me: I am interested in Traffic management
    The September issue of the councils Blackhorse Lane redevelopment newsletter is out now. To view it as a PDF click here TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT Yes we know X-Factor is back and then there’s Strictly Come Dancing on BBC1 but Sky+ them both and instead spend your Saturday night reading through the councils freshly minted series of 8 PDF’s entitled “Blackhorse...
    by blackhorseroad at September 26th, 2008 at 09:09 pm
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    BAG September Newsletter
    Firstly apologies for originally posting the wrong date on the website but the bat walk was a great success. The evening was dry after a sunny day and 18 people turned up at the Coppermill Pub. We learned various details about bats and heard their noises on a “Bat detector” which was tuned into the appropriate bat frequency. We couldn’t see any bats...
    by blackhorseroad at September 26th, 2008 at 04:09 pm
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