Appendix 6 – Neighbour Consultation Responses
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Appendix 6 – Neighbour Consultation Responses COMMENTOR COMMENT 1 Katherine Smith 1. The number of units is an increase from the initial proposed 114 to 144 units; approximately 25% 1 bed, 23 Primezone 60% 2 bed, 15% 3 bed. Mews 2. The resulting number of people potentially in this small space could be around Crouch End 650 made up of: London N8 9JP a. Number of people occupying the units could be in excess of 500 b. 67 hotel rooms - when fully occupied with 2 people = 134 people Objection to proposal Questions: What provisions in terms of budgets, amenities and services are in place to cater for this potential excessive rise in population density in this small space? Where can I access impact assessment documents? I‟d like to understand how the council has researched and assessed how this increase will affect: Doctors surgeries Schools Transport (in particular the already overcrowded W7 bus route) Parking spaces (see below) Pollution from more traffic Litter and refuse collection Noise pollution The drainage system Crime rates and policing 3. Height of Block A - up to 7-storey. I don‟t believe we were given an accurate photographic representation of how this would look. We were shown “impact” photos (i.e. made-up pictures but supposedly accurate from the Architect), which were all taken with trees totally obscuring the potential view of the building. Buildings in this area are maximum 4-storey (5 if you consider roof rooms). In order for people to have an accurate and informed view of the development, we should have access to a 360-degree view of the area, and not highly selected angle shots chosen by the developer. Appendix 6 – Neighbour Consultation Responses There are no images from Primezone Mews. A 7-storey building will this dominate the skyline, impacting light, noise and privacy. There were no photos from this angle. 4. Nearness of building to current boundaries: According to plan / image: www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/AttachmentShowServlet?ImageName=975076 the underground car park is right up against the boundary wall for Primezone Mews - my flat is a mere 1.5m away from it. I don‟t feel the diagrams we were shown were accurate. I was told Block A was 10m away from the boundary wall, and yet there is nothing to demonstrate this in any diagrams we saw or the plan online. I would like to see accurate to-scale drawings. Questions: What are the effects on the foundations, digging up trees, risk of subsidence etc. when building up against a boundary wall? I'd like to see documents showing there is NO RISK from digging an underground car park, and the FULL distance between the boundary wall and the proposed 7-storey Block A. To date, there has been no Party Wall Agreement or survey to assess this risk, so how can this proposed diagram be considered to be accurate? Where can I access impact assessment documents to understand how the council has researched and assessed how this building will affect Primezone Mews flats, in particular: Light Privacy Noise 5. Parking / traffic. There will be 40 spaces for 144 units, which could potentially have 300 or more cars. Plus there will be traffic from visitors to the 67 hotel rooms. There will also be 25 car park spaces lost from the removal of the spaces in Haringey Library. The council apparently will not grant parking permits to residents. Haringey Park Appendix 6 – Neighbour Consultation Responses and Weston Park are already oversubscribed in terms of permits/spaces available. There is little doubt people will park in HP and WP and move their cars at the non-permitted times. Questions: Where can we see this guarantee (not to grant parking permits) in writing? Where is the traffic assessment work carried out by the council? 6. Lack of affordable and social housing This is a luxury housing development ¿ this is NOT affordable housing and out of the 144 units, only 4 are designated social housing. This could be seen as an attempt at social cleansing, which in a Labour area, with a Labour council and Labour MP is diabolical. Typically investment developments such as this only serve one purpose to line the pockets of the rich investors abroad, and not the people who will come and live in the local community. Question: We weren‟t told the proportion of buy-to-let vs. properties for sale, so how can we have access to this information? 7. Loss of designated conservation areas: trees, animals, wild plants etc. will disappear. The development will retain 31 trees, but there will be a loss of the conservation area, which will be replaced by the underground car park. Crouch End is a designated conservation area; http://www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/haringey_conservation_areas_map-2.pdf. From the Haringey website: In a conservation area, local authorities must take into account the need to preserve or enhance the area‟s special character when deciding whether to grant planning permission. his build of a 7-storey tower block plus other units to make 144 flats, with approximately 500 people surely totally contravenes the preservation or enhancement of the character of the area. Appendix 6 – Neighbour Consultation Responses 8. Finally, the presentation of materials and documentation. These were not accurate and therefore it is not possible to make a fully informed appraisal of the development. The information is piecemeal. As stated, the photos were from selectively chosen angles, there were trees obscuring views There are no accurate to-scale architectural diagrams showing how far the buildings are from boundary walls. The presentation delivered by the architect was different to the designs on the printouts. The diagrams presented also differ to the ones online. There is no diagram showing the traffic entrance to the development. All of this makes me feel there is an element of non-discloser / omission of facts designed to confuse the public and misinform them. 2 Steve Crowley Comments: We object to the planning application, most specifically to the construction of a seven storey and Caroline residential building in the car park area to the rear, on several grounds. McGraw 18 Primezone Firstly, a building if this size is out of keeping with the area. There are few, if any, seven storey buildings in Mews Crouch End so it would be inappropriate on these grounds alone and would set an unfortunate precedent N8 9JP for further planned high rise developments. Objection to Secondly, the development would have an impact on numbers in local schools which are already popular. proposal These schools cannot continue to grow: are there plans to deal with the impact of so many new families on education services. Thirdly, the development will increase pressure on parking on Haringey Park which is already full in the evenings. I am aware that there are plans to provide parking facilities in the basement: will this be sufficient to cater for so many flats (professional families often have two cars) and any visitors they might have? Finally, the impact on Primezone Mews will be considerable. The flats numbered 23-28 will be deprived of sunlight every day from around 4:00pm until sunset if a development this size goes ahead. Additionally, these flats have rear gardens which would be overlooked and lose all sense of privacy in consequence. The rest of the development will suffer to a similar if lesser extent. Appendix 6 – Neighbour Consultation Responses 3 Farinaz Fazli I am raising very strong objections to the proposed plans to build a seven story property at the immediate Ground Floor back of my home which are totally unreasonable and I know ALL THE Flat. 25 Weston RESIDENTS along Weston Park feel the same. Park. N8 9SY I live at 25 Weston park and own the ground floor flat. I am horrified to see they are proposing a 7storey building metres behind my property and are also putting in windows on that side of the building which Objection to overlooks my garden and into my home. The 7 storey building is far too high and an eye sore even from the proposal photographs and it's higher than any of the trees and is higher than any other buildings around here. The view from the back of my house will look like a concrete jungle and very unsightly and not in line with the rest of the area. All the houses along my stretch are Victorian buildings and have double French doors into the garden from the living room. We will be living in fish bowls. This is going to be between 2 to 5 m away from the bottom my very small garden. The proximity is unacceptable! The grounds for my objection are but not limited to the following: 1-The significant loss of light despite their inaccurate and misleading claims and photos. 2-Creating a inescapable eye sore-tallest and ugliest building which is not in line with anything already there. In fact only the tower itself will be a bit taller. This will create an ugly concrete jungle. Trees will not have leaves for more than few months a year so their photos are misleading 3-huge , unreasonable and significant loss of privacy - all of our homes on this stretch are Victorian houses which have French windows accessing into the garden which means we are effectively going to be living in fishbowls as the 7 storey will have windows on this side too. The windows from the seven stories will be looking into our gardens and also to our homes . 4- huge and significant noise pollution from people and vehicles using and accesssing the flats.