New opposition web site:
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| Link to 'Stop the A406 Flats' web site |
"The plans are to build 140 homes in place of the existing 20 houses in the area by the new bridge, with an additional 39 homes planned for the area adjacent to Pevensey Avenue. The plans include a nine-storey tower block (on the corner of Wilmer Way and A406, overlooking Broomfield School) and a six-storey block (on the corner of A406 between Ollerton Road and Pevensey Avenue)."
4 August: Enfield Independent:
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Reposting of details of the scheme, from early July:
CONTEXT
Notting Hill Housing welcomed people last weekend to an exhibition of the emerging plans for the regeneration of a number of sites, located on or nearby the North Circular Road.
The sites are part of an extensive portfolio of properties that were originally purchased to allow for a major expansion of the A406. This resulted in a lengthy period of blight.
Through its North Circular Area Action Plan, Enfield Council wishes to see the provision of quality new homes linked with improvements to local transport and community facilities. The Council’s ambition is to deliver well-designed, accessible and pleasant environments in this part of the borough.
Following recent initial consultation sessions with the nearest neighbours to a number of the sites, this exhibition provides a further opportunity for local residents, businesses and organisations to learn more and give feedback.
Notting Hill Housing is in the process of preparing planning applications which are expected to be submitted to the London Borough of Enfield from the Summer of 2011 onwards.
Members of the regeneration team would be pleased to answer your questions [even now, after the exhibition] as we would value your views. All comments received will be carefully considered, prior to the submission of the planning applications.
ACHIEVING REGENERATION
Notting Hill Housing is a social enterprise which has been at the forefront of vibrant urban regeneration since 1963. Notting Hill has over 25,000 homes across London and the South East and employs 800 staff.
Affordable homes for rent or part-ownership, as well as homes for sale are provided. Some £180 million was invested in 2010, completing just over 1,000 new homes.
The service offered by Notting Hill is flexible, local and personal. Housing officers look after just 125 tenancies, and they are responsible for all aspects of service and contact with residents, such as rent collection and repairs services.
In 2010, Notting Hill took on the renovation and regeneration of the North Circular Road sites, after the scale of local road improvements was downgraded.
Much has already been achieved by Notting Hill in transforming the local area including:
- £10 million committed to refurbish over 250 homes, due to finish next year;
- housing or re-housing 118 existing tenants, with remaining homes available for new tenants nominated by Enfield Council;
- the eviction of a large number of squatters; and
- the major clean up of derelict properties & rear gardens including hazardous waste & asbestos – estimated at over £450,000.
This exhibition shows Phase 1 of the proposed new development programme, that will complement the refurbishment of existing properties.
The new development programme seeks to:
- deliver further high quality sustainable homes for rent, shared ownership and sale;
- regenerate vacant and derelict sites and some existing properties that have been compromised by the road improvements;
- provide new landscaping and tree planting to enhance the environment; and
- Improve security and clean up eyesore sites.
SITES
(You will need to email for a copy of the complete display boards, for more details of the sites; see below.)
BIRCHWOOD COURT & MELVILLE GARDENS
WILMER WAY JUNCTION NORTHSIDE
WILMER WAY JUNCTION SOUTHSIDE
TELFORD ROAD CORRIDOR
PALMERSTON CRESCENT & CHAUCER CLOSE
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Alongside future phases, these proposals seek to respond to the aspirations of the London Borough of Enfield, and deliver the regeneration of an area that has suffered years of neglect. Taken as a whole, the sites will bring forward much-needed new homes, offering a mix of tenures along with a series of environmental improvements benefiting existing and new residents alike.
Future phases of the regeneration programme will include additional homes, as well as community and business uses.
Once developed, the new tenanted properties will be fully managed by Notting Hill Housing alongside the existing refurbished homes, meaning that there will be a long-term involvement in the community.
Planning applications will then be submitted to the London Borough of Enfield, from the Summer of 2011 onwards. These applications will be subject to further consultation by Enfield Council, and representations will be invited from the local community.
The current expectation is that decisions will be made on the applications from the end of 2011 onwards.
For a PDF file of the full display boards, and to pass on your comments, email Martin Hughes, of the agency that produced the exhibition, at martin@polityuk.com.
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