tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post4226506719935092848..comments2024-03-28T09:45:17.708+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Cheers as Keep Willesden Green petitioners refuse to give upUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-5172500830335707992012-04-27T21:58:19.133+01:002012-04-27T21:58:19.133+01:00"Why can't Brent Council encourage a deve..."Why can't Brent Council encourage a development which incorporates the old Willesden Green Library building into a new building..."<br /><br />Why would they want to do that Kay? Whats in it for them (Brent Council)<br /><br /><br />The Local Don.The Local Don.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-19784030711803242892012-04-27T17:42:43.833+01:002012-04-27T17:42:43.833+01:00Why can't Brent Council encourage a developmen...Why can't Brent Council encourage a development which incorporates the old Willesden Green Library building into a new building just like the museum in Maidstone, see this link: http://www.dezeen.com/2012/04/11/maidstone-museum-east-wingby-hugh-broughton-architects/. <br /><br />Jay Merrick in The Independent wrote "The new extension of Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery, designed by Hugh Broughton, is a counter-blow to the government's witless, developer-friendly assumption that places, and lives, can be transformed by blinged-up buildings marketed as world class."<br /><br />Once again shame on Brent Councillors for not appreciating our rich history. What about the buildings/places we have lost already from Brent:<br /><br />- the old Wembley Stadium, an iconic listed building, obliterated with not a single trace of it left; <br /><br />- all the old British Empire Exhibition buildings, obliterated for horrible looking flats in the new ‘Wembley City’ crammed around the new Wembley Stadium and Wembley Arena;<br /><br />- The Chequers pub in Ealing Road, Wembley - a pub had stood on that site since at least 1751 - torn down a replaced with awful looking flats and shops in a development which completely dominates that stretch of Ealing Road and completely over shadows two lovely old Arts & Crafts houses in Stanley Avenue;<br /><br />- Dollis Hill House – I just don’t know what to say about this – what a scandal to let a building of such historic interest fall into ruin and then just knock it down!!<br /><br />- the Guinness Brewery at Park Royal designed by Giles Gilbert Scott (designer of Battersea Power Station, Bankside Power Station (which is now Tate Modern) and our iconic red telephone boxes) - a building which would have been listed and appreciated by another borough has been torn down and replaced with office blocks;<br /><br />- the art deco facade of Wembley Central Station knocked down and replaced with an untidy windswept empty space; <br /><br />- the two park keepers cottages in Barham Park Wembley - the park was left to the people of Wembley in the 1930's as Titus Barham was concerned about the overdevelopment in Wembley then (what would he think of it now!) - the council built two cottages in the park for the park wardens to live in but as we don’t have resident park wardens now the houses were not in use - rather than making them available for park visitors to use some way or knocking them down and returning the land on which they are built to the park the council has sold them off at auction, some would say by the back door, for just £300,000 each – a great chunk of the park sold off with no consultation with Wembley residents – how long will it be before the new owners are asking for planning permission to build flats on the site of the two houses which should still be part of Barham Park?<br /><br />I could go on and on with examples but I’m sure you have far too many of your own.Kay Carrollnoreply@blogger.com