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Finsbury Park's Twin Towers
Further to our report on the City North development back in 2008, the plans have now been given planning approval by Islington Council.
City North will include shops and offices and will tower 106 metres above Finsbury Park station. It is the largest regeneration scheme in Islington since Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.
It is the brainchild of Jack Morris, multi-millionaire chairman of the Business Design Centre, and was approved by Islington council last week.
Mr Morris told a planning committee: "The planning brief was to produce a landmark transformational scheme that would kick-start the regeneration of Finsbury Park."
City North will include shops and offices and will tower 106 metres above Finsbury Park station. It is the largest regeneration scheme in Islington since Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.
It is the brainchild of Jack Morris, multi-millionaire chairman of the Business Design Centre, and was approved by Islington council last week.
Mr Morris told a planning committee: "The planning brief was to produce a landmark transformational scheme that would kick-start the regeneration of Finsbury Park."
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I don't buy the argument about it ruining the view from the park. This development is on the old John Jones site isn't it? That's on the other side of the park.
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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The proof of the pudding in the viewing I guess. Wondering about transport links, traffic, etc that will all need improving if these towers are built.
Roof gardens look nice but I bet these will be for the posh people who can afford the penthouse flats? regeneration hardly ever benefits the 'ordinary' let alone the less well off locals. It just forces them to move on somewhere else
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I thought the regeneration of Finsbury Park was kickstarted some years ago when they spent masses amounts of money doing up the park (a bit).
I am very wary of anything that mentions regeneration, community hub, sustainability. The big old house along Seven Sisters road looking over Fins Park all being knocked down and replaced by drab new apartments. Ok, they had fallen into disrepair/disrepute even as 'hotels' but they surely could have been saved.
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Permalink Reply by Mr Growbag on
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I actually rather like these towers. Check the roof gardens on the artists impression! It's hardly Shopping City...
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Well this is Well's Terrace. Still not going to block my view of the city from the park. Not going to block your sunlight either.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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Well, what's currently there isn't worth saving - just a collection of odd bits of patchy development .. hardly a world class transit hub is it?
I think the development would definitely be an improvement.. Are there going to be any re-building to the station parceled in with the new buildings?
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So the corner of the park near Finsbury Park Station and in the evening is what you're talking about? Because the view from the park is south and that's where the sun is except for a few months a year when it gets right around the back.
I'd love for you to post a photo of the shadow diagram, I don't doubt you and all due respect but it would be nice.
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OK, so I definitely have the location of the building wrong. Seven Sisters is south of Finsbury Park. Wells Terrace is North.
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Twice as high as SC maybe, but certainly nowhere near as unattractive. It's a nice design.
I'm with StephenBln on this. Wells Terrace at the moment is a grubby road around the back of FP. The industrial buildings that the towers will replace are generic and unremarkable. Building tall buildings on conveniently located "brownfield" sites like this is preferable to London growing yet further and devouring more of the greenbelt.
The effect of the building's shadow's an interesting one, not something I'd thought of at all but surely something planners take into consideration, particularly where there's a park involved? Wouldn't most of the shadow be on the railway line?
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I just still think, shadow or no shadow, that these towers will be eyesores and lower rise development with sound consultation with the local areas and communities affected, would be good.
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Permalink Reply by Katey on
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Would be interesting to know what consultation has been done ...the company my hubby works for have just moved out of the old City North business park on Fonthill Road to a new building opposite the Wells Terrace entrance to the station. I'm pretty sure he was under the impression that a new entrance to the station was going to be built at some point on the old City North site, but I can't ask him right now 'cause he's asleep!
...think he also said something about the apartments that are being built having no parking spaces, but instead there being a pool of about 20 cars for residents. Again, I can't say that this is definitely right, but I guess it would have all the up to date info about this in the plans
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