Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Apex Towers plans published, open for comments till 6thNovember.
The whole sordid detail of the plans for Apex House, the 22-storey tower proposed for Seven Sisters, are now published. See them here. There's a lot of it.
Comments are beginning to arrive from local residents, overwhelmingly opposing it.
To comment, click the button that say Comment on Application. You can write as much as you like, you may like to draft it in eg Word first as the working box is quite small. They ask for your name + address etc but you don't have to give this. If you supply an address or email address you will be sent more info re the outcome.
It will probably go to the meeting on January 19th.
The bit that makes my head explode most, of all those fat documents? The Statement of Community Involvement. We must have been at different meetings. Oh and that there is no local library where we can view the plans, as ours is currently being knocked apart to allow for the office part of Apex House to be bunged in there - before these plans have even gone to committee.
Sorry I failed in my citizenly duty to put this note up before, but it only takes a minute to respond, perhaps longer if you choose to read through all the bumpf.
Tags for Forum Posts: 22 storeys, apex house, fagpacket, grainger, planning, regeneration, seven sisters
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Permalink Reply by hhnrau on
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Thanks for alerting us Pamish. Monstrously large and out of proportion. Just submitted my objection based on it failing to meet the following criteria in the Wards Corner/Seven Sisters Underground Development Brief, January 2004, published after wide community consultation:
- ‘development must provide an attractive and high quality landmark and gateway’
- ‘The site’s visual prominence provides a great opportunity for an imaginative development’
- ‘Buildings should be of a distinctive and imaginative modern design’
- ‘The treatment of roofline will be particularly important. There should, however, be a symmetry and consistency of architectural treatment across Seven Sisters Road which together should act as a gateway into the Bridge community area’.
- ‘A public feature of equal, or preferably greater, landmark merit as the clocktower should be included and the public lavatories replaced’
Unsurprisingly i see no evidence of meeting these criteria in the existing plans.
I’d like to OBJECT to the proposed development as it fails to meet key criteria for the area identified by Haringey Council and the local community. The Wards Corner/Seven Sisters Underground Development Brief, January 2004, published after wide community consultation, states this area ‘is widely recognised as a ‘gateway’ location into the borough at a very prominent location’.
The Devpt brief states: ‘the vision for this area is to create a landmark development that acts as a high quality gateway to Seven Sisters’
The Devpt Brief includes the following statements:
- ‘development must provide an attractive and high quality landmark and gateway’
- ‘The site’s visual prominence provides a great opportunity for an imaginative development’
- ‘Buildings should be of a distinctive and imaginative modern design’
While the descriptions ‘high quality, attractive, imaginative, distinctive, creative, bold’ are all subject to interpretation, I believe a majority of the population would agree these qualities are lacking in the existing proposal, and it should therefore be deemed to be FAILING TO MEET the development brief for the site.
In addition, the additional following specifications laid out in the Development Brief have clearly not been met:
- ‘The treatment of roofline will be particularly important. There should, however, be a symmetry and consistency of architectural treatment across Seven Sisters Road which together should act as a gateway into the Bridge community area’.
22 storeys clearly does NOT display ‘symmetry and consistency’ with the existing or proposed buildings on Wards Corner.
- ‘A public feature of equal, or preferably greater, landmark merit as the clocktower should be included and the public lavatories replaced’
I see no evidence of meeting these criteria in the existing plans.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Pam, as you well know, this proposed development was designed by the celebrated, world renowned starchitects John McAslan and Partners (JMP). Who were personally invited to Tottenham by the Dear Leader herself. And for whom the Council purchased and bestowed free shop premises.
The Apex building may indeed look - to you and others - as if it was sketched on the back of a packet of cigarettes. But please could you show some respect. Can we give it its proper name. It's McFagPacket Towers & Handouts.
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