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Quintain's Proposed hotel
Brent Green Party councillor Iman Ahmadi Moghaddam has come out strongly in support of Wembley Park residents who are campaigning for the retention of the Samovar Space and Market Square in the heart of the Wembley Park Quintain development.
He said:
I join with Wembley Park residents in opposing the building of a hotel on the site of the Samovar Space and Market Square beside the Brent Civic Centre and in front of the Wembley Stadium steps.
The space has become an integral part of Wembley Park. Residents, visitors, shoppers, concert goers and sports fans have all made it their own and it has become an organic part of the Wembley Park experience.
As densification of the area becomes more intense it is important to keep a breathing space at its centre, it is as important for safety during events as it is for leisure, entertainment, and its markets,
I believe the original reasons that Brent Council gave in 2020 for reaching a deal with Quintain on maintaining a public space on NW04 are stronger than ever. Quintain and Wembley Stadium got the stadium steps out of the deal and the steps of course remain – so should the Samovar Space and the Market Square.
Too often, residents are left with the impression that decisions have already been made, which is deeply frustrating. Both the council and developers must do far more to listen to residents, engage transparently, and treat public space as something to be protected, not traded away.
23 comments:
I entirely agree with what Cllr. Iman Ahmadi Moghaddam has said.
These open spaces make good planning sense in an area dominated by tall buildings, and with a high number of residents and visitors.
Great statement.... "and treat public space as something to be protected, not traded away".
Legally protected/ a singular unambiguous masterplan would also help.
With traders in the Civic Temple, in population grow, grow grow tower zones strongest protection needed for green spaces, squares, rights of way and of course welfare state infrastructure.
Unfortunately whilst the areas has been used for a few years until quintain are ready to build on it, I have been told that it is not a public space and already has planning permission for a hotel?
Well done Cllr Iman, this is why we need Greens in Brent for some truth telling. These councillors have walked around wembley for years under the red cloth/shroud and not even been able to call out the “densification of the area” as it has become “more intense”. IT IS important to keep a breathing space at its centre, YES 👏 🥦
Bit pointless he will just be another resident in may
Labour run Brent Council gave £17.8million of our CIL money to multi-billion pound developer Quintain for their steps outside Wembley Stadium to stop them building on this site next to the civic centre - will Quintain now refund that money plus interest so that it can be spent on vital local projects as it should have been???
Most local people will never be able to afford tickets for stadium events or stay in a hotel like the one proposed.
"Just another resident"? Aren't politicians elected to support us residents???
Pointless posturing from another deselected councillor trying to gain votes fir may, if he had actually done any work in his ward the last four years he would still be a in place in may, as it is he wont.
I believe a building on this site does have outline planning consent, given around 10 years ago. However, things which have changed since then, such as the increased number of large events allowed at the stadium and the crowd problems at the Euros final in 2021, would be "material considerations" for planning purposes, in favour of keeping the site as open space.
You may be right, Anonymous (11 February at 21:59), but don't write him off now. We will see in May!
Cllr Moghadam might be showing his inexperience here - he sits on planning committee and seems to have predetermined his position before the application is even submitted. That may prevent him from voting on the application when it is submitted.
All remaining space meanwhile in these Brent permanent development zones- all that's needed yet another 'plan.' It would be interesting to see state powers final plan for Wembley City. Those red cloaks are certainly warring a bit thin.
Back in a London planning for low car-user areas, see the Piccadilly Circus Pedestrianisation Plan, and no the idea for movement enabling here is not building a tall hotel on the public square to block- up a public right of way.
People in such zones will never matter. A new kind of unworthy non-people is zoned.
Wonder when zonal planning will become official transparent state policy in the UK rather than the current opaque inequalities building process of multi-agencies?
colonised by space invaders.
It may have 'outline' planning permission which may have been determined some 20 years ago when Quintain acquired that land and when 'indicative' ideas may have been considered. Things have changed over the past 20 years as the Labour Council allowed ever higher buildings so the population density may be higher than anticipated so the need for extra open & green spaces may now be greater too. The problem is that the Labour Councillors for the area have not done anything about this since getting elected for the new Wembley Park ward in 2022.
Was not Cllr Iman a Labour Councillor for the last 3.6 years? Did he ever challenge any of the over-development in Wembley while a Labour Councillor? It is 'principles' not switched party labels that count!
If only he had actually done some work for his residents of wembley park in the four years he had before being deselected, maybe he would actually be listened to now.
Philip / Paul - the documents i have seen suggest the permssion was granted in 2018 and that the site is also in the local plan for a hotel?
Do you have an example of any labour councillors who have? Or might it be the party is structurally damaging to different ideas
Don’t think so, it will either be reform or greens in may as the liblabcon grey political era is over
He seems to know all about public land being traded away in neighbourhood disregard by the Planning Committee.
Speaking of neighbourhoods being protected not traded, more consistent with 2026 Pride in Place policy (which needs state support to survive developer greed-led no plan abuses)..
When will Sir Kier declared that he has binned Lord Cameron's 'brownfield estates' (social housing estates it's all waste contaminated land) coalition government brutalist uncivil policy?
Silence so far and with Pride in Place, its leadership in ambiguity.
He should do he previously voted for it
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