EAST RIDGE
Barclays is closing its Walthamstow branch to make way for another 18 storey sky scrapper! It will have 66 flats to house more people trying to get on the already congested Victoria Line. Does this mean the end of Barclays in Walthamstow?
Providence Securities have submitted a planning application 210801 and objections have to be submitted by 19th May. Consultation was held in December online and a few people responded, see the Statement of Community Involvement, which indicates over 70% of those that attended were against the development.
Grenfell has shown catastrophic mistakes were made at Grenfell, will fire appliances be able to reach any of these buildings? Their ladders can only reach floor 10 so what happens above that level? Will we be seeing the great Fire of Walthamstow in due course? This is greed gone completely mad!!
We have lost Homebase now we are losing one of the major Banks - is this really progress?
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As well as high rise why can't we have "high sink" blocks of flats? Why not twenty or thirty entirely underground storeys? Think how many more people Walthamstow could have then, and how much it would be worth in Council Tax and backhanders? Okay, maybe they couldn't get out of it if there was a fire, and the air might smell a bit stale but that applies to most new buildings, especially on major roads that have been turned into elongated car-and-lorry parks by the Little Holland scheme and it's clones. You could regard the lower storeys as a warehouse area for the less affluent and charge higher and higher prices as you went ... er, higher and higher.
ReplyDeleteI'd like someone to explain to me why our elected councillors seem to prioritise the welfare of people who don't live here (yet?), against the declared wishes of a clear majority of those who do - as demonstrated by the huge ratio (ignored) of submissions against/for the monstrosity on the Town Square gardens. I think talk of backhanders is silly, but I do wonder how they sleep at night. Is it a yearning for "legacy"? Or do they think we're all children, and they just "know best"? I suspect the latter - though the beaming faces collecting external civic awards may be a clue. Meanwhile they are turning Walthamstow into a dormitory.
ReplyDeleteWhy is there a concern about Barclays Bank when they are closing busy branches with no justification. Banks do not care about us. There is a shortage of housing in the local area and I would back anyone who provides affordable social housing. I would prefer social housing to a bank any day.
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