IMPORTANT :: WILLOWFIELD CONSULTATION NEXT WEDS, 18th

Have your say on THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND OUR LOCAL AREA

Public meeting about the relocation of Willowfield School

Wednesday 18th of March @ 7:30pm

At Willowfield School, (main hall, entrance through the car park) Clifton Avenue, E17 6HL

Your chance to question councillors and officials about the quality of their plans

BAG Newsletter

URGENT COUNCIL CONSULTATION The council would like residents feedback on plans to site Willowfield school at the top of the Douglas Eyre playing fields. Visit the Building Schools for the Future consultation here to give them your views. As usual with council consultations they’ve waited until less than a week before the closing date to [...]

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 [...]

Last chance to reply!

Response to Blackhorse consultation The Council’s consultation on “Annexe to Planning Obligations – SPD Blackhorse Lane Planning Obligations Strategy” or in English, the Blackhorse Road development consultation closes Friday (8 August). You can read the document and electronically comment on the Blackhorse Lane Regeneration site. Please send your individual responses via email to the Council [...]

Douglas Eyre fire

Six fire engines and around 30 firefighters dealt with a blaze on the proposed site of the 23 storey tower block development at the top of Douglas Eyre playing field on Wednesday (30th July 08).

Thank you & keep the feedback coming

A couple of hundred people, tv crews from BBC & ITV News, and lots of feedback from locals concerned about the glut of tower blocks planned for Walthamstow. Sunday’s demo (June 1st), organised by Fight The Height was a resounding success. With leaflets winging their way around the area, the first part of BAG’s campaign [...]

Ten tower blocks planned for Blackhorse Rd

Do you want the future of Blackhorse Rd to be tonnes of high-rise concrete and more congestion? The 23-STOREY, 230 FEET HIGH BLOCK is part of a planned ‘super-density’ housing development near the station, with OVER 400 FLATS for up to 1,000 people in 10 TOWER BLOCKS, squeezed into only 1.7 hectares (thats less than two [...]

BAG’s response to developers proposal for BHL2

After the recent presentation of plans for the BHL2 section of Blackhorse Lane re-development, BAG has sent the official response of our residents group to Harry Hudson of Green Issues. We look forward to hearing their reply to residents concerns.  Download: Word doc: BAG’s response to developers proposal for BHL2   Feedback from the Blackhorse Action [...]

Tower blocks rise, House prices fall

Interesting article in the Waltham Forest Guardian this week claiming that the proposed development of a 18 storey tower block on the former Arcade site has hit prices for houses in its shadow. “When a resident next to the site went to a surveyor she discovered the preferred design that St Modwen has suggested for [...]

15, 18, 23, Do I hear any higher?

The battle to find out which high rise will be the largest, most unpopular, and least wanted by the community is on. 18 storeys are planned on the old arcade site, along with the 15 and 23 storey flats planned for Blackhorse Road. In response local campaigners have set up a website Fighttheheight.co.uk to try [...]

23 Storeys high

The exhibition of plans for the Blackhorse area may be over but there’s still time to let the developers know your views. Visit their website to enter feedback and also join the debate here by adding a comment. Many residents have expressed horror at the high rise plans which include a 23 storey block of [...]

Tell the developers what you want for Blackhorse Road

Want to know what the developers have in mind for Blackhorse Road? The “revised” plans for the redevelopment are going on public display for three days only. If you have objections, opinions, or even just fancy a nose, this is your chance. Decisions on every aspect of Blackhorse Road’s future are being taken, from the [...]

Councillors fall out over high-rise building at BHL?

The Walthamstow Guardian reports that Councillors Loakes and Rayner might not agree on stuffing the area behind Hawarden with tower blocks… article here.

Let the developers of BHL2 know your views

Here’s hoping you all had a fantastic Christmas – great food, company and, who knows, even useful presents! If you didn’t have the opportunity to go to the exhibition and comment on the plans developers are proposing for BHL2, you can still do it by sending your views by e-mail, fax or post to Harry [...]

Green Issues’ exhibition boards from last week’s consultation

Green Issues have posted their exhibition boards from last week’s consultation on their website. You can see them here. You can also download a pdf version of them here. It gives some useful explanations. For those who were unable to make it, it’s worth taking a look – you won’t really appreciate what is proposed [...]

BAG’s vision for the regeneration of BHL2 site

Just uploaded a .pdf file of the ‘vision’ for the BHL2 site. This, basically, summarises the results of a brainstorming session on the 12th November at which Members spoke of the sorts of things they would like to see on the site. Read it here. Obviously, this is pretty much a wish list, but it’s [...]

Green Issues Exibition, 13th, 14th and 15th December

Green Issues, the agents of the developers, are holding a three day exhibition of their plans for the proposed development of housing on BHL2. Anybody with an interest on what gets put up on that land should go a long and take a look, and feed their views into the process.   They’re spreading the [...]

Meeting with representatives of the BHL2 developers

Members of the Acting Committee had a meeting this evening with people from Green Issues and from DP9, the developers’ PR agents and planning ‘fixers’, respectively. It went pretty well, on the whole: they were polite and we learned some fascinating stuff. Here are the key facts, some of which are alarming… Just housing :: [...]