Posts Tagged ‘Housing’
Compact and bijou – the slums of tomorrow?
New homes in England are being built smaller than almost anywhere else in Europe, a new exhibition reveals. Are the gleaming new apartments buildings of the past decade the inner-city slums of tomorrow? Read the BBC article here.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Walthamstow West Community Council (June 08)
45 GRAND TO SPEND If you had a few thousand pounds to improve your area, what would you spend it on? That was the question put to residents at the Walthamstow West Community Council this month. Each of the four wards in Walthamstow West have £10,000 to spend this year, along with an extra £5,000 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 :: [...]
