New housing on St Agnes Place- Public Meeting- Mon 3rd March

[Onket]

New Housing on St Agnes Place & the Impact on Kennington Park

Mon 3rd March 7pm

Oval House Theatre, Harleyford Rd, SE11 (behind Oval tube)

The Friends of Kennington Park have invited Lambeth Council to present their proposals for new housing on St Agnes Place so that local people can get a clear picture & answers to their questions.

Main proposals-

-providing low rise blocks of flats and terraced houses along the southern end of St Agnes Place
-moving the Kennington Play Project/Adventure Playground north, to a new site on St Agnes Place
-moving the One O'clock Club within the park
-straightening St Agnes Place

The proposal will be put before Lambeth's Planning Committee this summer, possibly June.

The Friend's meeting is your chance to have your questions answered by officers from the relevant Lambeth Departments- Housing, Parks and Children & Young People's Services.

friends@kenningtonpark.org

 

[zenie]

Will be there as discussed already

 

[ChrisFilter]

Thanks for letting the internet know, zenie.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

hmmm, i was wondering what they had in mind for st agnes place. it's been empty for ages now. must be well over two years since they knocked the most of it down.

some history of st agnes place on this thread (though some of the images are missing )

funnily enough i was thinking when i cycled through there this morning that they could probably stuff in quite a few houses/flats in that space. they've created a new bit of grass and a better entrance to the park, which is ok i guess, but it sounds like a proper little development they're intending to build. as long as the kids don't lose out....i love the two kids play areas, they're colourful.

i'm not gonna be in london when the meeting's on - are plans available anywhere to look at?

 

[boohoo]

The Friends of Kennington Park have invited Lambeth Council to present their proposals for new housing on St Agnes Place so that local people can get a clear picture & answers to their questions.

Friends of Kennington Park? Will that be the local posh people protecting the pretty stuff? Though I shouldn't moan about this kinda group - the Stockwell Park Residence Association saved the trees in Stockwell Park Estate although they have limited interaction with the people there. The Stockwell Village Association think the Stockwell Park Residence Association is rather posh...

 

[piratetv]

yet another rip off plan
yet another fake consultation with local people
yet another nail in the overflowing grave of REAL social housing
Very soon cybercommunity is all that will remain.

up the P.O.U.M.

 

[Onket]

Friends of Kennington Park? Will that be the local posh people protecting the pretty stuff?

Well I'm a member, so yes.

In the absence of anything else.

 

[boohoo]

Well I'm a member, so yes.

Is this what the polka dot polo top is for?

 

[Onket]

This is a serious thread.

 

[bluestreak]

did somebody call?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Friends of Kennington Park? Will that be the local posh people protecting the pretty stuff? .

fuck it. let's just build shit loads of expensive flats in the middle of kennington park

 

[Onket]

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Is the Charlie Chaplin Playground likely to be affected?

 

[Onket]

The meeting is on Monday.

 

[tlon_uqbar]

It's a good scheme

I went to the meeting last night. It's a good scheme. There is a proposal to close the road, and join the two halves of the park, which would be terrific.

Is the proposal anywhere online - does anyone know?

My only slight cavils are that

a) the architecture is pretty dull
b) only one third of the new properties for sale, which is a shame - there is a shortage of local new build which keeps property prices much too high.

Tata.

 

[Onket]

The new architecture is horrible. And 5 storeys is far too high & imposing.
Too much of it is for sale IMO, we need more social housing, not less.
They will never close the road, surely you picked that up in the meeting?!

Mrs M- No, Charlie Chaplin is not affected at all. The Adventure Playground & 1 O'Clock Club are being re-sited further up towards where the temple was, which means the housing will be further down towards the Bolton Crescent end of St Agnes Place, preserving the 'green link' between the two halves of Kennington Park.

The triangle of land opposite the Black Sheep is also being redeveloped into housing by Southwark. This also looks rank.

The architects doing the Lambeth housing side of things are Hunter & Partners, so maybe something is on their website, I've not looked.

 

[Loupylou]

hmmm, i was wondering what they had in mind for st agnes place. it's been empty for ages now. must be well over two years since they knocked the most of it down.

Originally the plans were for a wacking great sports centre and swimming pool - that was what was we were told we were going to have - with the park joined up. But St Agnes was knocked down under the previous administration.

I'd rather have that than 'social housing' i.e. rip-off part-rent part-buy expensive housing.


10, 000 people on Lambeths' housing waiting list - and not one home built for people who can't get a mortgage...............

 

[Loupylou]

Too much of it is for sale IMO, we need more social housing, not less.

We need more (or - ANY) council housing - not 'social' housing.

Social housing is new-labour-speak which makes people think of (usually for rent) affordable homes. in reality it is very expensive private homes usually for sale and part-rent by huge housing associations.

which is a way of squeezing the most out of single working people who want to own property. Very few of this 'social' housing seems to be for families and none for those unable to work or on a low income.

 

[Onket]

IIRC this is about a third social housing, a third part-ownership & a third for sale.

I don't think councils are actually allowed to build housing for standard tenants anymore- it has to be through housing associations & is referred to as social housing. It's the closest thing available to council housing.

 

[Onket]

The architects doing the Lambeth housing side of things are Hunter & Partners, so maybe something is on their website, I've not looked.

http://www.hunters.co.uk/flash.htm

But I can't seem to get it to work properly. Tel no is 020 8237 8200 (available via Google) if you're really interested.

 

[bluestreak]

I don't think councils are actually allowed to build housing for standard tenants anymore- it has to be through housing associations & is referred to as social housing. It's the closest thing available to council housing.

This is correct. All new social housing is built by Housing Associations, who are obliged to offer a percentage of it, roughly 75% to the council to fill. The other 25% is used for transfers, exchanges, upgrades etc etc.

 

[tlon_uqbar]

Hunters

Thanks for the url. Hunter's website has flash navigation - pros: "cool"; cons: breaks on a lot of browsers, invisible on Google . Lots of boring lego housing there - but not this project.