IPPF story coming soon...

Shape council policy that will affect Walthamstow town centre for years to come with the Interim Planning Policy Framework (IPPF). Don't leave it to the politicians to decide what happens in Walthamstow. Make sure you get your objections to this document in by 4th April 2008 to Sam Neal.
Housing targets gone mad!
We'll post here soon with our full response to the IPPF. But, for starters, look at the housing targets on pages 22-25. The council reckons the High Street/Town Square area alone could get an extra 1,140 new homes. The Central area (including the Arcade site) is also "a prime opportunity to increase housing"; ominously it doesn't even get a number to go with that, so presumably we're talking zillions of flats. And yet they say the West End area (that's west of Palmerston Road, north of the High Street) needs "residential and community developments, in keeping with the existing residential nature and physical scale of the area. It is considered a total of approximately 70 homes could be generated."
We agree with that... but doesn't it also apply to other areas in central Walthamstow? The High Street and the side roads running off it are all typically two- and three-storey, often Victorian, buildings. If you don't want a high rise block landing in your back garden; if you think Walthamstow shouldn't be overdeveloped and overshadowed, then you know what to do... Read and comment on the IPPF by the 4th April.