Homebase Tower at Wandsworth Town

Strongly opposed to this Homebase tower

The tower is too tall to be in keeping with the surrounding area. The capacity at Wandsworth Town Station, which is already under strain at rush hour, will also need to be upgraded to cope with the extra people wanting to use the station.

The blocks are too tall and not in keeping with the village atmosphere of Old York Road. The infrastructure will not support so many extra people.

Disgraceful!

We the undersigned oppose the Homebase tower. We oppose the Mayor of London's decision to "call in" the application. We urge the Mayor of London to respect Wandsworth Council's original decision to reject the application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Promoted by Philip Williams on behalf of Wandsworth Conservatives, both of 3 Summerstown, London, SW17 0BQ DATA PROTECTION: The data you provide will be retained by the Conservative Party, and Battersea Conservatives (“the data holders”) in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and related legislation. By providing your data to us, you are consenting to the data holders making contact with you in the future by telephone, text or other means, even though you may be registered with the Telephone Preference Service. Your data will not be sold or given to anyone not connected to the Conservative Party.

Don't spoil our home when 35% of new build appartments sold last year are still in occupied by foreign investors. The station will not be able to cope and neither can the public services. Once it's built we can't remove it so the damage will be done forever and yet the decision maker fades away and avoids liability for their decision.

First, planning is about consultation and adherence to local and structure plans. The mayoral over-ruling blithely ignores all these principles. Second, this proposal reeks of development for profit, not people.

There are enough high rise buildings in wandsworth, there is no need for any more

After 2 consultations with residents the mayor has decided to take things into his own hands and dismiss the concerns of the local residents and develop the plot in a way that is not beneficial to the area. (Many of the arguments and objections have been noted in the above comments) It is not in dispute that more affordable housing is needed in Wandsworth. Why does the mayor not help the council buy and develop the plot, and make all the units available as affordable housing? Develop the plot along the lines of The Schoolyard, NOT high rise, but more aesthetically pleasing and manageable for the local area. We could then have a good number of new affordable properties (without the addition of a great many more properties that would lay empty, bought for investment only, which bring nothing to the local area or community) Please don't run roughshod over our small neighbourhood, The Tonsleys. We may be small in area and number, but we do matter so please listen to and respect our concerns.

Given the intensive level of property development in the area over the past 10 years and the current Ram Brewery development

I am a local resident and was born and raised in Wandsworth Town. I strongly oppose this development and the Mayor's proposal to over rule the council's decision. Transport links and traffic in Wandsworth are already at breaking point and this will put an unsustainable strain on local infrastructure. It will result in a significant reduction in quality of life for current residents and will damage the local area irreparably.

Unwarranted height and density for the area

39 Dolphin house, Smugglers way, London SW18 1DF LOCATION - Homebase, Swandon Way, SW18 1EW APPLICATION NUMBER -2016/7356 I have received your letter with notification of the above application for the redevelopment of the Homebase site. I object to the proposal in the strongest possible terms. My reasons are laid out below. This is not a new application, it was first presented in December 2015 and the proposal has changed very little since that time, despite repeated and loud objections by the residents and local councillors over the intervening period. The “supposedly” new application has reduced the huge tower block (17 storeys) to one of 15 storeys. However, this will still remain an inappropriately tall building for the site, on the very edge of an uniquely intact, Victorian “village” (the only remaining unsullied part of historic Wandsworth). The architecture of “Old Wandsworth Town” is of a completely different scale, being uniformly of two or three storeys in height. This precious enclave should be valued and protected for it's historical value – not be allowed to be destroyed by the greed of the ever-voracious property developer, cramming as many high value apartments onto the site as possible! At the same time, the current plan increases the height of the large Garden building (which is also unacceptably high for it's surrounding environment) and by doing has actually managed to increase the overall number of residential units from 324 to 343. I was told by the architects (at their consultation meeting) that these units are designed for two persons and they are predicting the number of residents to be in the region of 680. They also said that these flats are meant to be for young working people as their entry into the property market. This high density population influx, all working people, all trying to get to their places of employment in inner London, will prove to be too much for the struggling transport infrastructure that we all rely on.

objection to Homebase Planning Application 2016/ 7356

I would like to ask your help in the name of the impacted Wandsworth Community in this matter. I and the majority of Wandsworth residents around the proposed development STRONGLY object to this plan with the following key reasons: - The beauty and quality life of Wandsworth will be jeopardized and destroyed by a design style of high rise blocks that are totally out of keeping with the surrounding area and will importantly cause loss of light in winter months. - The nature of the area will be irrevocably negatively impacted by the proposed development by a developer who has consistently ignored the concerns of Wandsworth council and Wandsworth residents. The developer's latest proposal is worse than the first two proposals and they are trying to get approval by increasing the amount of affordable housing. Whilst the need for affordable housing is understood this should not be at the expense of an existing and long established community. - We NEED more green spaces, more trees planted for the sake of the environment, wildlife (bees, birds...) and for the sake of beauty - Lower rise block like the "Schoolyard" (the other side of Wandsworth roundabout) with more gardens, trees would be a much attractive site for the future generations of this area - Wandsworth has always been Village style and so it should remain - We want to see buildings that are in keeping with our Village style - We are concerned about even more congestion - No spaces on trains at Wandsworth Tow station because of already overcrowding - We are concerned about density and "suffocation - It is impossible to get on a train at Wandsworth Town train station in the morning as the area already heavily overbuild and overpopulated. The journey from home to work is becoming impossible and unbearable.

The Wandsworth Town trains cannot cope with the current high passenger volume during rush hour and this problem will become worsen as the final blocks of Battersea Reach and Riverside developments are completed followed by the new builds of Ram Brewery, Mapleton Crescent, the South Thames College /L&Q developments and the possible B&Q site. The overbearing height of the proposed development is inappropriate on a site located within the village environs.

Wandsworth Town train station is already heaving in the mornings so much so you have to wait for three trains before you get squashed on

In principle, we support development of the site, but infrastructure, scale, density, appropriateness of location, the wishes of the Borough’s residents (as expressed through their Council) are just some of the factors that need to be fully considered. Account also need to be taken of GLA’s own planning rules (which this proposal breaks) alongside Wandsworth’s record – describe by the Mayor of London in the Mayor’s Question Time as a “fantastic example of local authority housebuilding” (along with Croydon and Hackney). It is therefore questionable when current builds and those with planning permission are considered that Wandsworth will not exceed its ‘affordability build target’ (core strategy) of 33%. I will not repeat verbatim the documented reasons for the Council’s rejection of the planning application, but would emphasise the following. The developer has not had to purchase the land so should be required to increase the % of affordable housing to meet the target without the need to up the density, or the height, which was overly high in the refused application. The affordable element should also be assessed against a different ‘affordability criteria’ than would normally be the case, if those who really need assistance to purchase are to be helped. The transport infrastructure is inadequate for current needs due to the lack of a tube line and with a rail line that cannot increase the frequency of its trains without in effect permanently closing the level crossings west of Wandsworth Town for much of the time (the original proposal confused the circular nature of some of the lines and therefore exaggerated the frequency of the trains). The increasing overload of the station has the potential to reverse the reduction in the car population currently being encouraged by policy initiatives. The developer’s proposal to fund a new station entrance to the north may help cater for the increasing flow of people coming from the new but not yet complete developments a

I would like to strongly voice my opposition to the proposed plans for the redevelopment of the Homebase site on Swandon Way. I firmly believe that the building of an even greater development than was initially planned before - due to the Mayor's intervention - will irrevocably change the fabric of the Wandsworth Town area.

There are not the facilities to cater for another high rise development in Wandsworth Town. It's also not acceptable for the Mayor of London to override the local councils review or the response of the local residents.