A model of Wood Green proposed developments
As PMRA raises grave concerns with a first stage letter on Haringey's Area Action Plan, residents from across our area, including Hornsey Park, Sky City, Caxton & Mayes Road and Tower Terrace met Beth Kay, Head of Regeneration and Emma Williamson, Assistant Director - Planning Services to object to ill thought out proposals for wholesale demolition and redevelopment and an accompanying lack of environmental aspiration and means to convert unfeasible levels of building density and height into acceptable development.
Record of Meeting
Response Letter
There will be a General Meeting at 8pm on 26th April, 2017 to review the objections from across the area and, in particular our sub area west of the High Road to the railway and south of Station Road to Turnpike Lane. Meanwhile, the planning applications and pre planning discussions keep mounting up:
Model showing filter beds area
This image shows the size of development that will completely obliterate the filter beds, the Grade 2 Listed tanks, the openness around the Penstock Path and all of the nature there.
Life on Hornsey Park Road has been plagued with problems including noise, pollution and crumbling pavements, on top of this there appears to be a lack of strategic vision for the future. Council Leader Peray Ahmet and a few of her fellow councillors came to discuss the issues with our representatives.
Eight of us got out before the rain last Saturday. We cut back a lot of growth at the Lavender Garden ready for winter. Most of what we cleared has now gone down for composting. By John Miles
The loss of trees is becoming an issue locally. The wonderful false acacia at the junction of Mayes Road and Coburg Road was removed because it ‘had a fungus’ - just in time for the planning application to build on the petrol station site beside it.
Photo: The gardening team – John. Ben, Polly and John – out on a Saturday morning
Our report on the first Wood Green Summit, organised on Zoom by the Wood Green Business Improvement District. After the grandiosity of the Heartlands developments might Haringey be discovering a sense of proportion?
© Parkside Malvern Residents Association
We are also very concerned about the developments. Please sign our petition asking the council to answer our questions in writing
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/question-haringey-s-chaotic-development-plans-1
The filter beds - and their midges - used to sustain big population of House Martins that nested on houses facing Ally Pally, plus bats inc Daubenton's bats that roosted in the New River tunnel. That all went when the beds were decommissioned. But any change to the site should require at least 50% of it to be restored as wetland feature to help wildlife.
The proposed development will drastically affect the MOL and open nature of the site, there should be some payback for nature and local people.
Friends of the Earth has submitted this in our response. But we support those objecting to any development on MOL too.
Very concerned about the whole - unthought out conception of the WGAP. No understanding of the patchwork environment or the sensitivities of folk, place and houses and work, and nature, which need to keep going in some acceptable balance.
I still can't tell, though, if they are actually impinging directly into the filter beds/reservoir and taking up any metropolitan open land from what I have seen, or not.
Is the montage picture an obliteration of filter beds, or is it just crudely super-imposed.
Whichever - I completely agree that they need to re-think and show a living and lovable space with any new buildings contemplated, not this crude over-scaled development.
I wrote a poem on view of reservoir some time ago - not yet published [see blog]