Saturday 25 August 2018

Forest Road - thousands more homes coming

Having taken a stroll to the Wetlands I thought it would be interesting to see how over developed the area will be in a few years time. Bearing in mind the Victoria line is already at capacity and these new homes are still unfinished. As to Forest Road and the Tottenham gyratory road network it can barely cope with the existing traffic let alone thousands more people moving in to the area.

The Mayor of London is to blame and his planning guru Jules Pipe (ex Mayor of Hackney) thinks you can create higher density and still keep London moving. The only major infrastructure improvement for getting around London is the Queen Elizabeth line and that opens at the end of this year so it will be interesting to see how quickly that fills up! No wonder people are now starting to leave London and move away from the inevitable congestion.

This is not a definitive list of developments in the LBWF part of Forest Road area but it indicates the scale of the looming problems. Total number of flats 1,498 - at least 3,000 more people moving into the area.

1 Hoe Street

18 flats in 5 storeys



Blackhorse Point

350 flats in 3 blocks highest being 21 storeys





4 to 10 Forest Road
4-10 Forest Road consultation

353 Student flats in 9 to 17 storey blocks



Equipment Works
LBWF Regeneration Equipment Works

337 flats in 7 storey blocks

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Blackhorse Mills
LBWF Regeneration Blackhorse Mills

440 flats in 16 storey blocks






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