Wednesday 13 September 2017

Public Meetings Blast RCS Scheme

Two Public Meetings held at the Golden Lane Estate following the submission of the Planning Application for the RCS site have heard how the proposed scheme will impact life on Golden Lane and provide poor quality social housing.

GLERA Meeting at Community Centre 31/8/17

Too Much Stuff

Extraordinary as it may seem Islington and the City of London have brought forward a scheme that breaches their own planning policies on Height, Density, Access to Nature and Playspace. Even policies such as Cycling Provision, Disabled Parking and Refuse Collection are breached. When challenged the planning consultants point to the "constrained" nature of the site. Which is another way of saying that they have stuffed far too much onto the site.

Is that it?

It would be bad enough if that was it. But the height and density give rise to all sorts of other problems for residents on Golden Lane and Banner Street such as excessive noise, overshadowing, traffic congestion. The planning application tries hard to make light of these effects, but as the meeting heard - is unconvincing as soon as you drill down into the details. The noise report submitted was littered with errors, saying for example that the school playground was "about 25m away from the nearest residential receptors". In fact Basterfield House is less than 9m away.

Link to give your comments and views on the scheme:

Islington Planning Website

City of London Planning Website


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