Greenwash Towers is dead (for now)
Hackney’s Planning committee have turned down the application for an 18 storey tower block by Dalston Kingsland Station. To cheers and loud applause from a packed public gallery, Councillors unanimously rejected the scheme after protesters, headed by Bill Parry Davies of Open Dalston, criticised the lack of affordable housing, the scale of the development and the effect that it would have on overshadowing Ridley Road Market.
Residents now have to expect an appeal from the applicants who maintained that it is an acceptable scheme which complied with the Dalston Area Action Plan, a document that permits tall buildings up to 15 storeys.
Open Dalston: Celebrate Dalston’s fight for environmental and social justice.
This was a great victory for local democracy.
Unfortunately all the objectors left the planning meeting in a jubilant mood, and missed the approval of the Pembury Circus development.
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-work/CABE/Design-Review/1/Pembury-Circus-Hackney/
http://www.peabody.org.uk/news/pembury-circus-takes-shape.aspx
Tall buildings are the last thing Hackney needs.
They erode all feelings of community and human place.
Thanks for breaking the news online. I was amazed that you and I – if only by e-mail, in my case – got there before OPEN Dalston and Loving Dalston. Dalston Eastern Curve Garden was buzzing with the good news when I got there at noon.
Congratulations to everyone who joined in the fight and helped us all win, for the first time. Now to stop the infidels’ next awful attempt to plunder Kingsland High Street: the vast lumpen masses of concrete boxes planned for ex-Blockbusters site at the Sandringham Road junction.