tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48741272870486807962024-02-06T18:50:59.727-08:00FightTheHeight.co.ukUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-9797891832994111012013-10-09T06:12:00.004-07:002013-10-09T06:29:31.406-07:00Write to Robbins!
Love Walthamstow? Please spare 2 mins to object to plans to dump a huge out-of-town style supermarket and massive housing development in the heart of E17.
This is how the size of the South Grove plans compare with Warner houses! (click on the picture to see the scale) We're talking a big first floor car park, a massive Morrisons supermarket (the biggest in the country) on top plus other Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-47262920438352634042013-09-06T08:22:00.001-07:002013-09-06T08:57:36.408-07:00Mahoosive South Grove planning application is in(visible)
The planning application for the South Grove Morrisons development is in according to the Waltham Forest Guardian. Not that you can see it on the council website - there's just a page with some very basic info.
The WF Guardian article says "Morrisons claim it has listened to the public during two consultations and changed the plans accordingly". But it still looks much the same to us: a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-89317893855243999812013-06-26T07:15:00.000-07:002013-06-26T07:16:23.885-07:00More impending developments
Planning committee next Tuesday (7pm, town hall) will decide on the new plans for the old Ensign factory building on Fulborne Road. If you'd like to speak at committee you need to contact the planning department. For more info on the plans, scroll down to the story below or click here.
Meanwhile, the ugly tower block at Walthamstow Central station - you know, the one they had Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-41639887354971829892013-04-24T00:50:00.003-07:002013-04-24T01:16:58.786-07:00Help needed to save Walthamstow's secret historic building
Would you fight to save this factory on Fulbourne Road?
How about if you knew that underneath that ugly eighties cladding lies this, the old Ensign camera factory?!
Dating from 1908, it's one of the first, if not the first, British camera factories. It's beautiful, and we think it should be preserved as a historic building and sympathetically developed.
Current plans are to demolish Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-20545080012891783902013-01-31T08:57:00.000-08:002013-01-31T09:06:07.929-08:00Blackhorse Lane plans on show
New plans to develop the area North-West of Blackhorse Road station. Visit the public exhibitions tomorrow and Saturday (1st & 2nd Feb) to see the plans for yourself. See Blackhorse Action Group for details and the Blackhorse Lane Consultation site too.
We haven't seen enough of the plans yet to comment... but please god don't call it Morris Village!
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-53098508934126582422013-01-25T07:46:00.003-08:002013-01-25T07:47:34.913-08:00South Grove update
Predictably, the consultation on the South Grove plans didn't involve much consulting with residents. It was more like a public exhibition of the plans. And one where it was hard to get a straight answer out of them on simple questions like height...
Our friends at Blackhorse Action Group have written a report on the so-called 'consultation' which is well worth reading.
And the short (ha!) Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-62156573505413333492013-01-16T03:15:00.001-08:002013-01-16T03:42:20.943-08:00South 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 Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-32085509238127526262012-11-22T02:31:00.000-08:002012-11-22T02:50:19.650-08:00Arcade plans in quite good shocker!
The shocking news about the new Arcade site plans is that they're not bad. No, really. Opinions differ as to whether it's appropriate to build 120 new homes and a nine-screen cinema there at all. But the plans have been thoughtfully designed with good attention to detail and far less negative impact on central Walthamstow than previous plans. St Modwen's 18-storey tower block it ain't!
Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-13494135562602303822012-11-07T02:22:00.001-08:002012-11-07T02:23:30.584-08:00Dog track demo this SaturdayIf you'd rather Walthamstow Stadium was back in use as a dog track instead of a housing estate, there's a demo 1pm outside the stadium this Saturday (10th Nov). See http://saveourstow.wordpress.com/
There are many critics of L&Qs housing plans, because they don't stack up well financially, offer very little affordable housing, and because very little of the historic Stadium will be preservedFight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-47490587531187921062012-10-24T04:57:00.002-07:002012-10-24T04:57:58.413-07:00New Arcade site plansNew plans are in for the Arcade site. You can see them at the library or online at www.walthamforest.gov.uk/pages/news/arcade-site.aspx (go to the bottom of the page and click on "open the list of documents related to this application"). The deadline for objections is 30 November, so we're currently wading through the plans to figure out the biggest areas of concern for residents. If you want to Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-69998494515047152752012-10-24T04:52:00.001-07:002012-10-24T04:52:13.233-07:002 mins to help Save the Cinema!There's just one week left to send a quick email or letter to help save the cinema (the UCKG is appealing three recent decisions to refuse planning permission to turn it into a church). It's *vital* that as many people do this as possible. So please email the planning inspector quoting APP/U5930/A/12/2183662/NWF or see McGuffins or Save Our Cinema for more info or download a template letter.
YouFight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-52364194471732982662012-07-12T05:38:00.002-07:002012-07-12T05:40:02.495-07:00Big development incoming!
The PRs for the people behind plans to redevelop Walthamstow's South Grove car park and business centre (into a Morrisons supermarket and 250 homes) have taken the novel step of inviting Fight The Height members along to see the plans tomorrow and Saturday. See this PDF for details.
Hope you can make it! And please comment on this story to tell us what you think of the plans...Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-67815737619377002992012-04-12T02:45:00.001-07:002012-04-12T02:54:06.762-07:00Occupy meeting 21st AprilWaltham Forest Trades Council has organised a public meeting with people from the Occupy movement on Saturday 21st April at 2pm in Harmony Hall, Truro Rd E17 (just off the market). Further details and a leaflet will be circulated soon, but please put this date in your diaries and start telling anybody who may be interested.
If you've missed the latest news about evictions of protestors on Leyton Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-63079852074376932032012-04-12T02:33:00.002-07:002012-04-12T02:54:20.859-07:00Dog Track meeting 8th May
Saveourstow says: "We're delighted that a date has been set and we hope this will bring our four year campaign to the conclusion that just about everybody wants except L&Q – and that is the restoration of this Borough’s heritage. We are writing to you for your support. We would be grateful if you could post details of the public meeting onto your websites and also email all your supporters.Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-49800639315137395652012-03-23T15:15:00.003-07:002012-03-26T13:52:29.457-07:00Save Leyton Marsh march + an interesting walk around Walthamstow
Sorry for the short notice, but there's a walk tomorrow (Saturday 24th March) to oppose unfettered Olympics development on Leyton Marsh - 75% of Leyton Marsh has been fenced off to construct basketball training facilities for the Olympics! See Indymedia or Facebook for full details of the march and the campaign.
Meanwhile on Wednesday 28th March there's an after-work walk around Walthamstow, Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-92095929434743351202012-01-24T05:41:00.000-08:002012-01-24T05:41:36.611-08:00Dog track updateYou might think the whole area has gone to the dogs, but we think otherwise. In fact, there's a compelling argument for getting the dogs back!
If the council has rejected the UCKG's plans for our listed cinema on the grounds that it's viable to keep it in use for the purpose it was designed for, shouldn't the same logic be applied to Walthamstow's listed greyhound stadium?
If you missed last Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-6369699156510501032012-01-20T14:05:00.000-08:002012-01-20T14:07:23.263-08:00Sex, Drugs and LowHallPublic meeting about massive Olympic campsiteWithout public consultation the council has decided to create a massive* Olympic campsite on Walthamstow's Low Hall Sports Ground. That's not good at all. But perhaps the worst part of the plans is the people running it. The company involved [Big Events Camping] have no experience of running campsites and lots of experience of Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-34682243007988240962012-01-20T13:49:00.000-08:002012-01-20T13:49:40.330-08:00EMD Update: How to Save our Cinema by ObjectingAn appeal to overturn the Council's decision to refuse permission for the conversion of the beautiful Grade 2* listed EMD cinema on Hoe Street into a church has been submitted by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG). Government planning inspectors will re-consider Waltham Forest Council's decision to deny UCKG planning permission last year and have the power to overturn the case and Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-44795269025658550062011-11-22T01:42:00.000-08:002011-11-22T01:42:42.883-08:00Elsewhere, sense prevails...
Farewell to the 1960s, 17-storey Glencairn Tower in Motherwell
Here in Walthamstow, our councillors are still rubberstamping new towerblocks. Up in Scotland they're busy blowing them up! We challenge anyone not to enjoy videos like this one from BBC News.Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-5559942500371661942011-11-18T04:47:00.000-08:002011-11-18T04:53:53.959-08:00Walthamstow Central tower block, now with even more hotel rooms!They've just started work on the grim tower block at Walthamstow Central station car park. But news reaches us that they have already filed a new planning application - to increase the number of hotel rooms and change design elements. See the letter below (click on it to read), which rather marvellously they only sent to residents on one side of Priory Avenue!
Details of how to complain are on Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-54747312201314274412011-11-09T07:40:00.000-08:002011-11-09T07:41:23.827-08:00Arcade Site update
The council has now inked its agreement with Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association (ISHA) to develop the Arcade site. You can see the latest news on their plans here and also download a recent presentation on their ideas.
ISHA and their architects are making all the right noises about working with residents, a good quality development, family and affordable housing, not Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-30253523095312860242011-11-09T07:25:00.000-08:002011-11-09T07:25:54.228-08:00Have your say on locally listed buildingsIf you care about which local buildings are added to the council's list (or indeed taken off it) then check out this consultation before the deadline of 25 November. Note that while the dog track and a couple of other important local buildings are being taken off the list, that's apparently because they are now listed by English Heritage which gives them more protection than the council's list.Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-32842237384605934672011-11-09T06:50:00.000-08:002011-11-09T06:52:13.548-08:00Tower block work startsWork is finally underway for what will quite possibly be the ugliest and most depressing tower block in the world, at Walthamstow Central station. We say finally not because we want it there (it does loom a bit in the picture, no?) but because developer Solum swore back in January that they'd start work soon and that it'd be complete in time for the Olympics. We always said that was tosh Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-79685883432259848322011-05-24T03:22:00.000-07:002011-05-24T03:26:46.484-07:00Council votes to save EMD!
We stand shoulder to shoulder with the council, for once! On Weds the planning committee voted unanimously to refuse planning permission to the UCKG to convert Walthamstow's last working cinema into a church.
For more info on the campaign to save the EMD (formerly Granada) visit Save Walthamstow Cinema - and visit the Waltham Forest Cinema Trust to find out about the viable plans to bring it Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4874127287048680796.post-88426109670706408172011-04-21T04:48:00.000-07:002011-04-21T12:17:39.819-07:00Walthamstow 2.0At last the new Walthamstow town centre masterplan from Gort Scott (yes, yet another masterplan!) has been unveiled and is available online.
First impressions? Largely good ideas but they feel like pipe dreams - funding hasn't been identified so there's a sense that the council will cherry pick a couple of ideas it likes while ignoring the holistic vision.
Also unconvinced that expensive Fight The Heighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11235122775388517469noreply@blogger.com0