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Imagine having to tell people you live in Candy Park Walk.
Scott | Homepage | 18.06.20 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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Thank you for the digest. I knew there were plenty of neighbours on their way, but I hadn't quite appreciated how many.
It's also amazing how little local notice is needed for such big developments. I suppose there's also a notice in the local paper that nobody reads, and the masterplan was consulted on years ago, but you kind of need to know to go looking for it all.
martin | 18.06.20 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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...Clarnico Lane. Er;
Clarnico. Clarnico.
Clarnico Mint Creams!
Gordon | 18.06.20 - 7:19 a.m. | #
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I wonder whether all these dense new neighbourhoods will be such a necessity in a post-Covid world. I’ve a feeling lots of companies will take the opportunity to rid themselves of expensive office space having functioned perfectly well with everyone working from home. This leaves a potential future of vacant office towers. Imagine Canary Wharf ripe for conversion to housing..... though if everyone who works in offices then works from home they won’t necessarily want or need to live cheek by jowl in London. The future of the commute is also looking very different.
Joe | 18.06.20 - 7:36 a.m. | #
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Clarnico because their factory used to be on Carpenters Road. I know because it was a feature of my cycle journey to/from college in the early 70s. There was the smell of mint creams from Clarnico, and then another appetising smell from a meat pie factory. Does anyone know where they went? Light industrial often gets moved on during redevelopment, but it's still needed so has to go somewhere.
amber | 18.06.20 - 7:42 a.m. | #
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There are many reasons why it takes a long time to build thousands of flats, not least the logistics of managing the sites. One reason though is that developers don't want to flood the market which will lead to lower prices. Developers control supply which is one of the many reasons that new housing is so unaffordable.
ganching | Homepage | 18.06.20 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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I suspect the phased and staged future building dates are something to do with delivering, but not over-delivering, on the government's officially required number of new homes for any given area, for any given period.
If a local council over-delivers on numbers, meaning homes are completed early, the numbers of homes built don't count any more, are removed from the plan period in which they should originally have been completed, then leaving a shortfall in numbers to be built in that future period.
That then leads to a council failing to have a 5 year land supply (5YLS), so speculative developers can then use the planning system/planning appeal system to their advantage and get applications approved that would not have been approved had there been a 5 year land supply.
That's the case in the Shires anyway.
Blue Witch | 18.06.20 - 8:04 a.m. | #
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I know developers like to take it slowly, and they can't just magic up a huge team of construction workers to build everything in one go.
But East Wick and Sweetwater's 1500 flats are planned to be built at a rate of approximately 100 a year, which is glacial.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.06.20 - 8:06 a.m. | #
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Never stop reading planning notices on lampposts. This was most interesting - thank you.
Matthew | 18.06.20 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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I like the artists impression for Park Pivot, where the bloke in blue walking his dog is trying to avoid standing in dog poo. It's the little details that bring these pictures to life.
Jonnus | 18.06.20 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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Olympic Park? More like Olympic Concrete Sprawl.
Bob S | 18.06.20 - 8:53 a.m. | #
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I was reading exactly the same planning application yesterday on the LLDC planning website, and I always read all the planning notices in the local papers and any that I see posted on lampposts fences gateposts etc.
fishislandskin | 18.06.20 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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The glacial pace could be a form of land banking. If a company owns 10 sites, and develops them one at a time, the other 9 will be empty and draw attention to the profits the company is making by sitting on them. If all 10 are developed together, slowly, it's "move on, nothing to see here".
Malcolm | 18.06.20 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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There could be a very similar set of street names for the redevelopment of The Chocolate Factory at Wood Green. The developer, Workspace, is leaning quite hard into the history of the site and I predict there will be a Jelly Baby Terrace and Dolly Mixture Way.
Anon | 18.06.20 - 11:33 a.m. | #
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I like having street names that honour the history of an area but it would be nice if they could use other bits of local history instead of stretching a confectionery theme to breaking point. Trebor Bassett were a conglomerate who took over Clarnico without a local connection otherwise. Bassett's original factory is just up the road from me in Sheffield. Still in use, although now part of Mondelez.
Anders | 18.06.20 - 1:44 p.m. | #
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On the other side of the Olympic Park, there's a Decapod Street - which turns out to be another niche local history reference.
martin | 19.06.20 - 6:33 a.m. | #
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These are the sort of posts I come back for. I already know most of the basic details relating to the East Wick and Sweetwater developments so it’s nice reading somewhere knew about. But I never knew Park Pivot was a thing. The land is not something I would’ve considered for development.
I think the LLDC need to make up their minds about the QE Olympic Park. Is it a high density development zone or is it a park? I’m starting to think the remaining pockets of green space need to be individually named. For example, City Mill Park for the island between the London Stadium and the Aquatics Centre.
PVR | 20.06.20 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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