Brent Planning Committee has unanimously approved the part 27 storey/part 30 storey replacement for the 2 storey Argenta House on ex-railway land opposite Stonebridge Park station.
It will form part of an urban 'island' of tall buildings next to the North Circular road and opposite the proposed development of Unisys and Bridge Park. The development, in the elbow of Wembley Brook and the River Brent, includes a 32 storey building just behind Argenta House.
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Have you noticed how the height of buildings is creeping Up & Up under Labour? Are family flats with children on the 32nd floor really a good idea especially so close to the polluted North Circular Road?
No surprise! The fact that the application offered 100 percent "affordable housing" was probably a deciding factor.
However, whether these will actually be "homes", apart from in the sense of being somewhere to live, remains to be seen.
Truly frightening for people's sanity
Having family flats with children on the 32nd floor so close to the polluted North Circular Road is not a good idea for various social, environmental, public health and fire safety reasons.
Greater London Authority Planning Application Referral Link: https://glaplanningapps.commonplace.is/planningapps/25-1355
Agree with both above. A very bad idea as quality of homes and lives is the last thing Labour Councillors consider these days. It is simply a 'numbers game' and pointless photo opportunities. Almost 20 years ago the North Circular Road was identified as the most air polluted area in Brent with highest number of Asthma cases.
It was argued at Planning Committee that air quality mitigations required on the previous application were no longer needed as measurements showed air quality on the site had improved. Mitigations through window quality were required to reduce noise from the North Circular. The Environment Agency had accepted the flooding mitigations.
unbeleivable.
Surely they could just have air filters installed to combat this?
Labour tower lords. Need only to prove to globalists that this Stonebridge to Wembley Park towering is welfare state infrastructure free.
Perhaps use as a "Mega Jail" would suffice
They wouldn't allow you to keep prisoners in tower blocks like this!!!
You all moan about not delivering enough affordable houses and even when an application proposes 100% affordable you still moan!? And by the way Philip Grant's definition of affordable isn't the one planning policy is based on.
But it isn't affordable to Brent residents is it? That's the point. You can call shared ownership and 80% of market (LOL) rate affordable all you want, it doesn't make it affordable does it? Unless you live in your Cloud Cuckoo Land.
If it were truly "Affordable" then full time working people like myself with 1 child in full time school and I earn a few pounds in excess of minimum wage would not have to rely on Housing Benefit to top up my monthly rent by £400 to my greedy landlord, and I live in a 1 Bed Flat.
I quite like the look of Wem, hoping this new build improves the look of the area further because it's quite gritty as is
Views from 2 thirds of Wem property windows will be lost once the new towers are built.
Yay, a Labour Party YIMBY
Exactly, landlords robbing the tax payers
But they are polluted and they flood, surrounded by polluted a watercourse that's full of human effluent. Brent don't give a s....
Why do you need to live in London? There is affordable up north
Almost 50% will be social rent which is the most affordable tenure available. The other 50% are shared ownership which i agree isn't affordable to all but is affordable to certain key workers who don't qualify for social rent. The 50% social rent units would never be built if they weren't subsidised by the shared ownership units. Personally I don't know how the developer is able to make the development viable at all based on a 50% social / 50% shared ownership mix.
See the towers from Stonebridge to all the way to Wembley Park pending. Packed into dark alleyways or a highest quality neighbourhood for humans to live well in fully planned? The needs of 4 bedroom car-free 'sky houses' towered doesn't factor yet in Brent politics. Hammersmith and Fulham, even Tower Hamlets are way more clued into basic human rights and good growth planning.
What, there will be hundreds more Brent towers C21or is this the final tower?
Something like the City of London's chaotic fractals, but without its commerce, wealth or build quality. Mono warehousing of ever depleted virtual lives, an Other City Brent. Mine the gaps between towers.
Having lived in Wembley for over 50 years, we’ve seen it go through many changes. However, the worst planning has been in the last two years where no consideration has been given to the residents who’ve had to put up with continuous traffic congestion daily due to the road blockages for building flats, upgrade of utilities( where no check is made on the time frames and no work is done for weeks). This is aside from the events at the Wembley Stadium which are non- stop. Council seems to ignore the inconveniences to the residents and blindly goes ahead regardless of follow up. Agreed cheaper housing is needed but with that so does sufficient parking, schools, hospitals etc need to grow for the extra people that this is going to bring. So far, all of this has been ignored completely. I’ve seen no new schools being built, NHS is stretched way beyond its limit and as for the traffic and parking issues, an absolute disaster. Start penalising the utilities and builders for forever not meeting their deadlines and use these monies to improve the facilities that are so desperately needed
Yes I agree that matters such as the NHS, schools, parking issues as well as upgrading local utilities and greater levels of traffic congestion should always be fully considered before these developments take place.
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