Archive for August, 2012

Misleading images and the impact of a new construction

Author: Cyril Richert

The Council included explicit guidelines in its planning policy to prevent the use of eye-fish images on tall buidlings.

The Development Management Policies Document now states, para 2.49 page 23:

Detailed visual assessments submitted with applications in order to demonstrate compliance with this policy (I think this means DMS1 but it could mean the tall buildings section of S2UDS) will be required to accurately represent what would be seen by the human eye. The use of wide-angle lenses, for example, can distort perspective and distance, and thus the relationship between the foreground and background, and this will not be acceptable”.

All good, you might think?

In reality, as often with Wandsworth Council, those seems to be policies to please the amenity societies and the residents, but with no effect in actual issues.

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August 26, 2012 at 11:42 am 11 comments

CJTCP – meeting 16 August 2012: feedback

Author: Cyril Richert

As I attended the Clapham Junction Town Centre Partnership (business associations) meeting last week, I thought I needed to give a quick feedback on some specific points that were discussed.

In the minute it was reported that:

The town centre manager “issued a verbal update re the Delancey intention to submit another planning application for the shopping centre/Development  at the station.The Board were keen to be involved in the consultation and looked forward to receiving further updates.”

It means THAT.

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August 22, 2012 at 10:06 pm Leave a comment

Peabody’s redevelopment confirmed by the Mayor of London

Author: Cyril Richert

The Mayor of London has confirmed on Tuesday the decision to grant permission for the redevelopment of the Peabody estate at Clapham Junction.

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August 16, 2012 at 10:03 pm 1 comment


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