East Ridge - previously Barclays

 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?

EAST RIDGE CONSULTATION

Welcome to:

The site is adjacent to the Travelodge and will be even higher and is opposite Juniper House, the same height which is now under construction. In due course another skyscraper will replace the Strettons building finally wrecking the Town Centre. Oh and of course a 34 storey block in the Town Square.

East Ridge will enable Heath Robinson's drawing of the 1930s to come alive in Walthamstow in 2022!

View along Hoe Street where numerous buses pass - good job they are going electric!

Here is an aerial view to see how the birds will view it!

CONSULTATION

View before just as the Travelodge emerged.

Barclays today

View of Juniper House from Barclays