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| View from the south - note how the blocks beautifully frame (read: TOTALLY DWARF) the station in between them! |
The basic info about the application can be found on the council’s website. This being Waltham Forest council, when we visited the site we couldn’t access detailed documents, but no problem – we’ve got hold of a copy and uploaded them to the web ourselves!
To see the plans in all their g(l)ory you can download this 5MB PDF file. Beware… late night reading might give you nightmares about the future of Walthamstow.
Our biggest concerns are that the tower blocks are too tall for the area, of poor design quality and won’t integrate well with the rest of the town centre. We’re not opposed to the idea of developing the car park – we just think it’s an important location that deserves something better than being carpet bombed with generic tower blocks by greedy developers.
You can email your objections to dcmail@walthamforest.gov.uk quoting planning application number 2010/1047. However horrid you think the proposals are, please try object on valid planning grounds. You could also email your ward councillors and tell them why you think this development would be bad news for Walthamstow.
3 comments:
"valid planning grouns" - such as...
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Fair question!
If you know your onions planning-wise, go ahead and object.
If you like a bit of heavy reading, visit the council's website and read up on all the local and national planning policies.
Or... give it a few days and we'll post a story here with suggestions of valid planning grounds.
We're also trying to find out what the real deadline for objections is!
Lots of cycle parking spaces! But how many of them are public?
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