Tuesday 16 November 2021

Join a walk on Thursday to see what might be incorporated into the design for Carlton Vale Boulevard

South Kilburn residents were somewhat perpexed by the circular below inviting them to take a quick local walk and then go on to Central London as part of the Calton Vale Boulevard project.

 I assume that the central London section of the walk will be looking at existing design features that will be incorporated into the Boulevard. Holding it on a weekday will mean that although children under 18 will be welcome it would involved them truanting from school!  Other residents will be working.



It is worth looking at the website LINK by the Northern Ireland based designers GMDA but  I have reproduced some of the information below. The RIBA Stage 2 Cost Plan has priced the scheme at £6,960,000.

 


The Regeneration of South Kilburn is a fifteen year programme that is approximately half way through delivering over 2,400 new high quality homes, new and improved open spaces and public realm, retail, education and health facilities. 

 

The proposals for this project are for the revitalisation of Carlton Vale to create a vibrant Boulevard with improved transport links, lighting, street furniture and artwork. This green spine will focus on improving the health and well-being of residents and will also deliver improvements to air quality, sustainable drainage solutions and increased biodiversity.  Carlton Vale Boulevard will be bound by Queens Park station in the west and the junction of Kilburn Park Road on Carlton Vale in the east.

 

The outline timescales for the Carlton Vale Boulevard Project are as follows:

● Design Period: November 2020 - Spring 2021

  ● Consultation Events & Workshops: December 2020 - Early Summer 2021 

  ● Start on Site: Early 2022 

  ● Completion on Site: Early 2023

 Please note that these dates are indicative and subject to change

 


 

 Book the walk here: cvb@g-m-design.co.uk

 

6 comments:

David Walton said...

For Carlton Vale Boulevard the same as with Chippenham Gardens flood defence park improvement, expansion and investment works (on site very soon), despite asking on numerous occasions, I can't establish exactly what Brent precisely intends to deliver? Is it colonial land pre games or are these public spends well thought through to sustain and long-term support Brent residents natural health, safety and wellbeing? Why so much design secrecy, I always fear sloppiness and unaccountability where there are no clear and transparent plans offered- a lack of genuine and meaningful engagement with the people who live South Kilburn.

Carlton Vale Boulevard like Chippenham Gardens Green, relates to all manner of adjacent public interests owned/managed by Brent, which can be by good quality deign hopefully supported and improved also. Very keen on boosting all South Kilburn colonialism surviving ecology, de-paving and making Kilburns only remaining parks north side better access designed, loved and inviting for all Londoners (its being unusual as an open 24/7 park, the next nearest of which is at Westbourne Green). Not every Londoner needing park recreation is a 9-5er/ you can see dog walkers at midnight in Kilburn Park.

Obviously major flood risk reduction must lead both of these key green new deal projects for Kilburn vale South Kilburn Major Town tall building zone. A new 16 storey tower 'site' is of social rent housing cleared by Countryside on Carlton Vale (Boulevard) and visual markets itself as being opposite a beautiful 100 veteran tree woodland natural health flood defence South Kilburn Public Open Space or is this park still held hostage as Brent surplus brownfield land?

Pete Firmin said...

Having been to one online `consultation' on this project, I'm not sure what the purpose of going to Kings Cross is. Their walk will not even cover the whole of Carlton Vale, so it is clearly not seen as an opportunity to explain their plans on the ground. The online consultation I went to had about 6 council officers, planners and consultants and 3 `real' people. Consultation has become so devalued in Brent as to be meaningless, and people are aware that whatever is said the Council will push ahead anyway. What little say we have is over where trees are planted. This prettification of Carlton Vale is costing - according to a Freedom of Information request - about £7 million. Meanwhile there are areas of neglect in South Kilburn which Brent makes no effort to put right issues.

John Healy said...

Peter Ward, the first NDC manager set out his vision for South Kilburn around 2004. He said we will develop Carton Vale into a tree lined boulevard like the ones in Paris, where people could drink a coffee with French bread out of doors all the year around. We could not stop laughing at this as we could not see this becoming a realty, mainly because of the weather which does not suit an outdoors cafe society.

I am in agreement with both Dave & Pete on this and I will not be joining the walk.

What we need from Brent Council is not a boulevard but services that help people from going hungry. e.g a disabled lady posted in Kilburn
Mutability Aid today about having no money to buy food. That is what the council's priority should be and not some bizarre attempt to make our residents imagine they are living in the South of France, rather than the reality of South Kilburn as winter approaches.

John Healy said...

Peter Ward, the first NDC manager set out his vision for South Kilburn around 2004. He said we will develop Carton Vale into a tree lined boulevard like the ones in Paris, where people could drink a coffee with French bread out of doors all the year around. We could not stop laughing at this as we could not see this becoming a realty, mainly because of the weather which does not suit an outdoors cafe society.

I am in agreement with both Dave & Pete on this and I will not be joining the walk.

What we need from Brent Council is not a boulevard but services that help people from going hungry. e.g a disabled lady posted in Kilburn
Mutual Aid today about having no money to buy food. That is what the council's priority should be and not some bizarre attempt to make our residents imagine they are living in the South of France, rather than the reality of South Kilburn as winter approaches.

David Walton said...

Admittedly Brent as yet unloved, but Carlton Vale is a tree-line street just like South Kilburn Park has over 100 beautiful veteran trees. To blame for this historic urban quality environment crime are utopian 1950's/ 60's Brent socialist planners and architects. It’s a beautiful legacy, why not a bit of natural health and flood mitigation to help sustain South Kilburn wellbeing, lives and homes?

Brent in its de-growth, retuning flatted Victorian houses to family homes conservation area zones does invest heavily and continually improve by year similar streets and parks. For South Kilburn growing population year 2000 to year 2041 by five times (6,000 to 36,000 on 45 hectares), such nature management, investment and care is agreed a bit of a Brent leap to equalities, but why not spend £7 million ( if true? ) where Brent population and taxpayers growth actually is? There will surely be a health and wellbeing payback just as there is from Brent de-growth hillside environmental investment zones, just a vastly scaled-up one.

This Carlton Vale and South Kilburn Public Open Spaces environmental value was fully apparent in the partnership masterplan of 2004 and during its extensive consultation process. It is true that the central park has been not been invested in or new planting supported recent developer colonial times, while the Vale did receive some non effectual works.

Kings Cross is the idea of an active travel (car free) mega density city living environment with towers, as there is excellent public transport available, so this does have parallels with what South Kilburn could in potential be. However roads everywhere, underground car parks everywhere, many towers, doesn't seem to point South Kilburn Vale Major Town that way yet? Of course these Brent climate emergency building regressive interventions listed are increasingly difficult to justify in terms of out of control damages and massive costs forced onto South Kilburn families present and future.

Sars Covid-19 'lockdowns' and 'stay local' legally enforced are pretty brutal traumas when lived at mega density (heavily colonial neglected) and some would contend that we ain't seen nothing yet regarding pandemics/ control.

I would support this Brent late in the day tentative 'change of heart' to a green, active travel, ecological minded approach to its mega population density two bridges to Brent South Kilburn Vale Major Town zone dream ( I would like to see the detailed plans of course). As for me 'the worse the better' mega density dystopia is not the only political design possible from such a super rich British Islands Government.

Latter I hope to produce a post which lists all of the community facilities, services and amenities colonial cleared already from South Kilburn very large site, this as its population is being rapidly by Brent grown. South Kilburn Vale Major Town can be green and protect its ecology, defend from its floods and have diverse services and facilities appropriate for 36,000 people; otherwise something remains seriously wrong with how South Kilburn taxpayer's money is being parasitically siphoned and extracted out only by Brent.

David Walton said...

CVB is being designed as if it is in a lowest flood risk area, an area that for the City of Westminster downstream is mapped as being a high flood risk hotspot?

New deep emergency storm drains could be CVB built for carrying flood waters to all drain to soak away spaces in the South Kilburn Public Open Space natural flood defence (Kilburn Park), rather than into peoples homes and into new massive underground car parks, the present design approach.