Posts Tagged ‘consultation’

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    WWCC hits Twitter
    There’s a sort of stream of consciousness account of tonight’s Walthamstow West Community Council meeting on Twitter. Check out http://twitter.com/BlackhorseAG. Hopefully there’ll be a fuller write-up soon…
    by blackhorseroad at June 15th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
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    IMPORTANT :: WILLOWFIELD CONSULTATION NEXT WEDS, 18th
      The date for this meeting has been shifted and is NOT now on the 13th. Apologies for any confusion or inconvenience.  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...
    by blackhorseroad at March 12th, 2009 at 02:03 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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    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 send details to residents! The...
    by blackhorseroad at January 9th, 2009 at 12:01 am
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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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    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...
    by blackhorseroad at August 6th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
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    Tesco Express @ The Essex Arms
    Tesco have leafleted residents of the Blackhorse Road area about their plans for a Tesco Express store on the site of the former Essex Arms pub on Forest Road. For those that don’t know the location it’s about a 2 or 3 minute walk up Forest Road from Blackhorse Road tube (or about 0.1 miles) (see map). We’d like to know what residents think? Are you pro or anti...
    by blackhorseroad at August 5th, 2008 at 06:08 pm
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    Putting the Con in Consultation
    Question: You’re a council caught closing a local library without bothering to tell the community who use it, all to save £70,000. The governments audit commission savages your actions, the lawyers point out it breaks legal guidelines, local residents mount open air libraries in protest and the scrutiny committee gives you 6 months to consult the community. Do...
    by blackhorseroad at July 15th, 2008 at 04:07 am
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    Do you want Community facilities?
    The council wants your views on the Blackhorse Lane re-development, and more importantly who pays for and is obliged to provide what. Here’s what the council says: “The draft Planning Obligations Strategy for Waltham Forest has now been published for consultation. As part of this there is a specific area based strategy for Blackhorse Lane which sets out how...
    by blackhorseroad at July 11th, 2008 at 06:07 pm
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    North London Waste Plan consultation results
    The North London Waste Plan have declared their consultation period with residents to be over. The results are summarised in a whopper of a PDF file on their site; you can look at it here. There are several references to the Blackhorse area including this about residents opinion: A significant number of respondents expressed specific opposition to the use of the Blackhorse...
    by Waste and Recycling at June 27th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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    North London Waste Plan meeting – Tuesday 15th April
    There are plans to locate three of six new waste processing plants required for north London in Waltham Forest (with one planned for Blackhorse Road). The framework document for these plans is the North London Waste Plan. This document will be finalized following a number of public consultation meetings held at various locations in the borough earlier this year. As far...
    by blackhorseroad at April 14th, 2008 at 11:04 am
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    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 and pressure the council to retreat from their mission to build...
    by blackhorseroad at March 20th, 2008 at 11:03 am
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    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 flats that the developers themselves boast “can be seen...
    by blackhorseroad at March 3rd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
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    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 number of storeys flats might have...
    by blackhorseroad at February 26th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
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    Your chance to tell the Council about your environmental concerns
    Submit your views on climate change to the council via this link and they’ll send you a low energy bulb. You could even win a prize! The deadline is this Friday, the 15th Feb.
    by blackhorseroad at February 11th, 2008 at 02:02 pm
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    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 Hudson. Please submit your comments by the 4th of January. Harry...
    by blackhorseroad at December 26th, 2007 at 09:12 pm
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    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 exhibition over three days, so as to give people as much chance...
    by blackhorseroad at December 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 am
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    Meeting with Councillors – CORRECTION
    Just a note to let people know that the consultation meeting at Douglas Eyre pavilion will NOT be next week, as was announced at the residents meeting, but on the evening of the 27th. I’ll confirm the time here when I have heard back from Cllr O’Rourke. The meeting will be about the High Street development, and Cllr O’Rourke has arranged for the bar to...
    by blackhorseroad at November 16th, 2007 at 09:11 am