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The area I used to live in was mixed residential and industrial, many had very short commutes!, then the council decided everything should be de- muddled, so many of the industrial units have been replaced by flats, or entire housing estates.
Now the area is choked with traffic, there are queues where there never used to be queues and at times of day when it used to be quiet.
Incidentally - although on the Chingford side, the Cooks Ferry pub is worth a mention, used to be a good place to see bands - something else that has gone, some of the set lists are here.
If the area becomes desirable housing, presuambly there will be some gentrification of the nearby terraces, and not only will the disadvantaged people living there now be unable to move into the new boxes, but they'll be pushed out of their old houses too.
Listened to a podcast recently (here) where it was estimated that something like 10 million people (perhaps more) were forcibly rehoused from so-called slums after the Second World War into nice modern estates. Completely disrupting the social structure of working class communities, where people knew each other and their families, and leading to the deprived areas and social disintegration we have today. The Victorian terraced houses that were designated slums (typically by a single council employee, and often simply because the house had no internal toilet or bathroom) would be very desirable family homes selling for hundreds of thousands of pounds each today.
Podcast was by Joseph Bullman, who made the "Secret History of Our Streets" series. More about Charles Booth there too.
The meridian water scheme cant make the place any worse , losing poorly built and designed warehousing is no great loss. But I do wonder where people will work ? Any industry in the Valley is being destroyed .
Fyi THFC supporter and worked for many years on LV trading estate.
When there are no more small businesses providing jobs for locals in areas such as this, and when vast tracts of high-quality farm land in the SE and East Anglia are built over, then there will be employment and food production shortages.
You only build on beautiful countryside and/or destroy mixed communities once.
That North end of the Tottenham Marshes had a big fire last summer. And several illegal raves in the field to the north.
The area's also notable for being the point where the River Ching empties into the River Lea next to Harbet Road. The concrete pipe where it exits is particularly interesting.
dg writes: It scarpered fast.
'Meridian' can also mean southern, which I suppose this place is relative to some other places - cf. Norwood.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.6096/-0.0485
That would be my excuse if I was the developer. Not saying it's right obviously.
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.383908013356073&lat=51.6117&lon=-0.0501&layers=173&b=1
http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw044767
I tend to agree with Blue Witch on this. Yes that bit of the Lea Valley is not exactly exciting but you need somewhere for small businesses, bus garages, warehouses, scrap yards etc. We can't keep removing them and expect the economy to keep functioning effectively. The housing will, no doubt, be a continuation of the dreadful insipid shoddily built rubbish that is being foisted on us all across London. We're building the future sink estates right now despite giving them poncey names and putting them in flood zones beside reservoirs, rivers and flood channels.
Losing so much local employment will play havoc with transport demand, congestion and transport related pollution. Any massive set of mistakes in the making.
Years ago Greenpeace scaled the chimney in protest against the pollution it gave off. That resulted in the place being renamed EcoPark and getting a fresh lick of paint. I wonder whether they actually did anything to address the real issues:
"The site has been the scene of a demonstration by Greenpeace, who are against all incinerators because of concerns that they emit "a cocktail of chemicals that can cause cancers and asthma attacks", and that incineration "undermines targets for waste reduction and recycling".[5] In October 2000 they scaled and occupied the station's chimney, shutting its operations down for four days. The incinerator has also been campaigned against by Friends of the Earth and Londoners Against Incineration."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_EcoPark
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