The absurd planning application 2015-0881 is officially dead. This greedy developer thought they could bulldoze our neighborhood but our collective pressure forced them to back down. We won this round but keep your eyes open because we know they will try to test us again.
August 21, 2015
Final supporters
To The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government:
I am a Battersea resident and I object strongly to planning application 2015-0881. This level of over-development will be environmentally damaging. It will have a harmful impact on the homes, amenities and lives of local Battersea residents, particularly with regard to its failure to comply with BRE guidelines for daylight, sunlight and overshadowing. Neighbouring residents stand to lose between 50%-100% of their sunlight during the darkest months of the year, forcing them to light their homes during the day. The council has consulted very narrowly and very poorly and then ignored 169 objections and damming evidence from independent expert witnesses. There have been 0 letters of support. The council has been unable, when asked, to substantiate their claims. There are other more neighbourly designs that could be adopted for this scheme that are less harmful to neighbouring sites, integrate more fully with the area and add to, not detract from, the public realm.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
August 5, 2015
August 3, 2015
The council thinks they can ignore us while they gift our sunlight to developers but we are gaining ground fast. Push this link out to everyone you know right now so we can slam them with 250 signatures before they try to move forward again.
Reached 100 supporters
August 1, 2015
212 Comments
I own a flat at Candlemakers in Battersea. I strongly object to the serious impingement of the right of the residents to enjoy their properties. The proposed development will block daylight and will add on to the acute traffic and other problems experienced in the area.
A large part of the community in Battersea object to the over-development. Our community is being sold to developers, in return for limited-benefit paybacks. This is destroying the community life for buy-to-leave profiteers.
No light for those of us who already live in the area and for no social benefit. The wider infrastructure doesn't support it and there is no sign of community in any of the vast number of "developments" that have gone up in recent times. Prioritise quality of life for your existing residents!
The plans are hugely out of character for the area and would deny current residents their quality of life. BRE guidelines exist for a reason. Clear disregard for current objections is highly concerning and utterly thoughtless.
This development could easily be supported if the main tower blocks were a reasonable height, 21 floor here is a ridiculous size, when a more considered view along the lines of trade tower, would be acceptable. The Developer has made no attempt to consider local residents
The loss of natural light is a real and pressing issue during this recent phase of property development. The Wandsworth Council clearly hasn't taken the interest of existing local residents into account when approving these ever taller buildings despite close proximity to existing developments
This scheme is ridiculous! How can the council even counsider this! An area lacking of harmony and becoming unappealing. Yes we do need houses/flats and we do need to regenerate the area but we definitely do not want more towers. The lack of natural light for the close residents, the lack of parking zone for the crazy amount of additional residents (as we all know that parking spaces provided in schemes in general are only for small pourcentage of the amount of flats built) makes this scheme to dense for its area! Does Wandsworth council want to become the new City!!! As I see one tower after the next growing, I seriously consider leaving the area which will soon become a zone of stacked rabbit cages! Oh no sorry zone of stacked 'luxury' apartments! Just ridiculous! No sense of wellbeing!!
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The absurd planning application 2015-0881 is officially dead. This greedy developer thought they could bulldoze our neighborhood but our collective pressure forced them to back down. We won this round but keep your eyes open because we know they will try to test us again.
August 21, 2015
Final supporters
To The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government:
I am a Battersea resident and I object strongly to planning application 2015-0881. This level of over-development will be environmentally damaging. It will have a harmful impact on the homes, amenities and lives of local Battersea residents, particularly with regard to its failure to comply with BRE guidelines for daylight, sunlight and overshadowing. Neighbouring residents stand to lose between 50%-100% of their sunlight during the darkest months of the year, forcing them to light their homes during the day. The council has consulted very narrowly and very poorly and then ignored 169 objections and damming evidence from independent expert witnesses. There have been 0 letters of support. The council has been unable, when asked, to substantiate their claims. There are other more neighbourly designs that could be adopted for this scheme that are less harmful to neighbouring sites, integrate more fully with the area and add to, not detract from, the public realm.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
August 5, 2015
August 3, 2015
The council thinks they can ignore us while they gift our sunlight to developers but we are gaining ground fast. Push this link out to everyone you know right now so we can slam them with 250 signatures before they try to move forward again.
Reached 100 supporters
August 1, 2015
212 Comments
I strongly object to the height of the building, which is against Council guidelines (7 stories?). The proposal will block my light 12 months of the year (83 Trade Tower, Plantation Wharf). Also, the existing traffic flow is enormous, any increase will raise the risk of regular traffic accidents.
I own a flat at Candlemakers in Battersea. I strongly object to the serious impingement of the right of the residents to enjoy their properties. The proposed development will block daylight and will add on to the acute traffic and other problems experienced in the area.
A large part of the community in Battersea object to the over-development. Our community is being sold to developers, in return for limited-benefit paybacks. This is destroying the community life for buy-to-leave profiteers.
No light for those of us who already live in the area and for no social benefit. The wider infrastructure doesn't support it and there is no sign of community in any of the vast number of "developments" that have gone up in recent times. Prioritise quality of life for your existing residents!
The plans are hugely out of character for the area and would deny current residents their quality of life. BRE guidelines exist for a reason. Clear disregard for current objections is highly concerning and utterly thoughtless.
This development could easily be supported if the main tower blocks were a reasonable height, 21 floor here is a ridiculous size, when a more considered view along the lines of trade tower, would be acceptable. The Developer has made no attempt to consider local residents
The loss of natural light is a real and pressing issue during this recent phase of property development. The Wandsworth Council clearly hasn't taken the interest of existing local residents into account when approving these ever taller buildings despite close proximity to existing developments
This scheme is ridiculous! How can the council even counsider this! An area lacking of harmony and becoming unappealing. Yes we do need houses/flats and we do need to regenerate the area but we definitely do not want more towers. The lack of natural light for the close residents, the lack of parking zone for the crazy amount of additional residents (as we all know that parking spaces provided in schemes in general are only for small pourcentage of the amount of flats built) makes this scheme to dense for its area! Does Wandsworth council want to become the new City!!! As I see one tower after the next growing, I seriously consider leaving the area which will soon become a zone of stacked rabbit cages! Oh no sorry zone of stacked 'luxury' apartments! Just ridiculous! No sense of wellbeing!!
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I strongly object to the height of the building, which is against Council guidelines (7 stories?). The proposal will block my light 12 months of the year (83 Trade Tower, Plantation Wharf). Also, the existing traffic flow is enormous, any increase will raise the risk of regular traffic accidents.