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To: Lumina/AWW/Montagu Evans/Opera/Bellenden; Helen Coomb, Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Property & Planning, Redbridge Council
Amend the Harrison Gibson development proposal in Ilford High Road
This campaign has ended.
We want Lumina/AWW/Montagu Evans/Opera/Bellenden to amend the plan for the development of the Harrison Gibson building in High Road Ilford by reducing the towers to a similar height as the current Harrison Gibson building
Address the issues of access, car parking, housing mix, affordability and access to open areas
Why is this important?
The excessive height and bulk of the 30 and 16 storey towers will have a severely detrimental effect on the amenity of the area in terms of overshadowing, lack of privacy, wind tunnelling effects, skyline.
Part of the access to the proposed building would be from Havelock Street. The whole of this street and adjacent areas would need significant improvement before people would even consider using this street on a daily basis. A very localized improvement to the street, near the entrance to the building would not nearly be enough.
32 car parking spaces for a development of this size is woefully inadequate. This is not central London and you cannot prevent people from owning cars. If people own cars, they will find somewhere else to park, often leading to conflict with others.
There are concerns regarding how much of the housing will be affordable. If there is some affordable housing, the question remains will it be separated from the market-rate housing. There are different open areas proposed in the development, so other questions are: how will these areas be controlled and maintained and will all residents, including those in affordable housing be able to use them?
