Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
LAWRENCE ROAD - another plastic box "wonderland"?
Hi people,
Some of you may be all-for the Lawrence Road redevelopment but i am vehemently against. After viewing BELLWAY'S proposals, i am even more concerned. From the "information" given, i can see 7-story generic plastic-clad flats, and very little info about the design and architectural impact these new buildings will have on the surrounding Clyde Circus Conservation Area. In fact in one mock-up picture the Victorian terraces of Grove Park Road are massively overshadowed by the proposed towers.
If you are interested to know more about it all, please visit Bellway's rather half-assed 90's-style website which seems to have been built by an intern (!?)
http://bellwaylawrenceroad.co.uk/
If like me you are extremely concerned about the proposals, there's still time to make your thoughts known. Even if you have constructive criticism or positive suggestions it's still worth saying.
Download the Feedback form http://bellwaylawrenceroad.co.uk/downloads/index.html
and tell them what you think before consultation is over on 18 April. Yes, they gave us just 18 days to submit our comments.
It would be great to feel that this wasn't just another planning proposal going unnoticed before it's too late.
Thanks guys!
Tags for Forum Posts: bellway, lawrence, n15, planning, redevelopment, road, seven, sisters
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Permalink Reply by byl999 on
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Ah a fellow REPORT IT! resident! Good on you!! I do that too, it does seem to get collected eventually. I only wrote the description for Harringay residents who don't know the area. I did notice that you mentioned going elsewhere... Me too.
Oh dear poor old crappy Tottenham!! What have they done to you!?
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Yes it's all down to council enforcement. Much of West Green Road is actually included in the Clyde Circus Conservation Area, which under normally circumstances (ie: a council that gave a shit) would mean tight restrictions on facade enhancements, pvc windows and satelite dishes. Throughout the conservation area it seems that nothing is being done to maintain the fast-fading character that deserved the status in the first place. I worry really. It's shameful that the council should pander to every Crouch Hill/Hornsey conservation area need, lavishing on planning laws to maintain historic street frontage and shop facades and yet a few minutes drive away, they play by a completely different set of rules. Ie; no rules.
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Permalink Reply by clyde on
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Sadly in Seven Sisters the public gets what the public wants, well actually they get what is easiest for planning, then told they have been consulted. After all the public keep voting the sad old councillors in who actually think 7 storey towers are an improvement. We need more people like that Wards Corner crowd to keep suing the council for every large development in the area and join that group tweet out my councillor to flash mob out any councillor via democracy from their party come elections who support these awful schemes like Griangers or wards corner site demolition.
I did hear at the Bellway presentation that the devlopement is based on the hieght of the nearest building; which is said to have an illegal story added with no planning permission. So first the council destorys then it claims to regenerate. Sounds like people need to cmapign to start getting people in the Planning team sacked afterall they are supposed to plan for the borough not just the bits they can dump on easily.
I hear that Marc Dorkman in planning is running around the area trying to find people who actaully support the Graingers development over the tube. Still chuck in rubbish collction once a week and a normal level of council tax and people might go for it.
What about the lack of green space in Lawrence Road? why are the Planners not using this development as an opportunity to create green space through land swap and consolidation. I was just surprised there was no pavement called a public square in this scheme but as ever so much potential and all given away to private developers and yes you will get consulted when planning have decided on what they will let you have. Get down to planning aid for London now.
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Permalink Reply by Neville Collins on
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@ Clyde, you're right about the lack of green space in the development, something that Tottenham desperately is short of. Why hasn't the council notified the public about it... or are they just trying to force it through anyway? Have the local ward councillors in Tottenham Green commented on this, and on the Ward's Corner appeal? Sadly very little. Unfortunately, it has been left to the likes of WCC and others to defend their community against the council's repeated degeneration of the area.
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@Billy Hole, Markfield Park is the one.
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Thing is with those parks is that the council cut the amount of people on clean-up/ litter duties so Downhills especially is always littered with rubbish (and dog mess from irresponsible owners). The last time i visited, on that warm summer evening we had a few weeks back, i decided not to return because it was full of rubbish and worse, drunks, even saw 2 different guys pissing in full view of other park users. It thoroughly depressed me and i wrote feedback on the council's how-was-your-visit website thing.
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@ by1999,There's an article on the parks' clean up in this week's edition of the Tottenham and Wood Green Journal if you haven't bought a copy yet, it's on page 2: read here. (I believe the council should hand back the Green Flag award because of the awful state of our open spaces)
I agree that there should be a decent amount of open space in the development and good local amenities nearby.... which unfortunately for Tottenham, I still believe, are still sadly lacking.
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