From our very local correspondent
Elizabeth House work is almost complete except for a few bits on the ground floor, all the scaffolding has gone and cladding replaced.
Next door, Wembley Place (old Brent House site) was completed and signed off in Easter 2020, although no one moved in until October 2020 and that was just the Social Housing portion. There are two retail outlets on the Ground Floor, Costa Coffee, and a Sainsbury's Local. It was not long after Sainsbury's had been shopfitted and ready for opening that scaffolding went up outside and around various parts on the ground floor. On asking residents and Sainsbury's recently as to why it's there, nobody seems to know! I have never witnessed anyone working on any parts. Rumours abound. 1) that balconies glass is not safe? 2) some cladding bricks were loose and falling off? No one really seems to know, perhaps you can do some detective work?
Our three trees have been removed from the Triangle and replaced with some large wooden planters? What's that about?
Last week I saw several workmen digging out the places where trees once were on the High Road to install new ones!!! Obviously of the right kind???? and it would appear that Brent have added some new Urban Art in Electric Orange colour warning Paan Spitters that they could be fined £100. Interestingly I spoke to Brent Enforcement Officer who said despite working for them for 3 years and Paan Spitting being one of his big bug bears like the rest of us, no matter that he has tried relentlessly he has never been able to catch a perpetrator in the act. LOL. I think it mostly happens at night.
Behind the Twin Towers (developer's name 'Uncle and the site of Chesterfield House) two more blocks are going up, one of 17 storeys and 1 of 19, being constructed by Henrys (same as twin towers) with same developer "Squarestone Hub" I think on planning it's listed as the Wembley Link, you will see from photos they continue to build on the Chiltern railway cutting as it has been purchased by them. The view from the back of my house shows that they have built in front of the gap between the twin towers which will definitely obscure most of the sunlight when it sets in the West. It's funny because these towers are directly behind Daniels, Nando's etc and cannot be seen if you are on the High Road at all.
Uncle have at least 4 retail units which they appear to be struggling to let. I have not seen any activity in any of them, perhaps they are too expensive to lease, and also they will require a full shopfit which is not cheap. I'm surprised that one of the Coffee lot haven't taken one of them but considering there are now 3 Costa's in Wembley plus one next door called Chico Nero, and then Shakes and Bagel's across the road, perhaps too much competition.
On another note, what happened to the Community Centre supposed to be located at Ground Floor Level of Uncle, under the 21 storey tower. I noticed it's now occupied by a company called Little Village which is a foodbank come recycling clothes for babies and toddlers? I couldn't get access and couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Also their landscaping is looking past its sell by date, isn't planning supposed to monitor that, to ensure it's kept up to date?
THIS IS BUTT'S BRENT ASSISTED BY HIS FAVORITES ON CABINET, YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
ReplyDeleteA big trend in suburbanista shires London politics is for building towers next to railway lines and towers in environments where it regularly floods.
ReplyDeleteNew railway housed families, new flood housed families or BOTH!- are the wrong type of Brent taxpayers for a community centre with serious funding support, that's the deep entrenched decision maker ideology.
The UK officially admits September 2021 that it has 468,000 empty homes. Many of these homes in neighbourhoods resilience supported by high quality social, health, education, community infrastructure with easy access to public open spaces- EMPTY?