Wednesday 16 January 2013

South Grove consultation this week - tall buildings klaxon!


Here comes another one!!!

New plans for a BIG development at South Grove - the patch of land that's currently a large car park and business centre, between Sainsburys and the little roundabout at the end of Markhouse Road.

Not sure where that is? See this map or look at the picture above (unhelpfully, this is looking at the site from the north, as if you're floating above the market looking south across the overground line).

We haven't seen the plans but looking at the publicity they clearly include a big Morrisons supermarket (a stone's throw from Sainsburys) and car park, up to three other shops and lots of new homes (reportedly 240 flats!).

Don't be fooled by the apparent scale of the buildings taken from an angle that would make anything look diddy. Click on the picture to look more closely and you'll see that, like the new Arcade plans, the gardens pictured are in fact on top of a building, surrounded by taller blocks. (Look at the bottom right of the development, and see how the building underneath dwarfs a juggernaut!) So the overall height of the tallest buildings looks to be MASSIVE. Well over 10 storeys we'd guess.

Find out more at www.southgrovewalthamstow.com or better still come to the consultation this week and have your say.

Consultations: this Friday 18th Jan (2pm-8pm) and Saturday 19th Jan (10am-4pm) at Alpha Business Centre, South Grove E17 7NX

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The way they are counting the storeys is a little misleading. Shop storeys are double height but when you ask them how many there are, they count each one as 1. But yes, the total height is 11 times the height of one of the residential storeys.

Blackhorse Action Group said...

http://www.blackhorseactiongroup.org.uk/index.php/2013/01/21/south-grove-morrissons-consultation-or-subterfuge/

Our thoughts on the consultation process

BAG said...

http://www.blackhorseactiongroup.org.uk/index.php/2013/01/21/south-grove-morrissons-consultation-or-subterfuge/

Our thoughts on the consultation process