Higgs Development, Loughborough Junction (2019 design)

[teuchter]

I'm glad she withheld support. Do you mean abstained or voted against?
Gramsci looks from Twitter that all the applications were approved this evening. If Lambeth Planning were a company no doubt they'd get a Christmas bonus!

Voted against.

 

[teuchter]

There are some things happening on site - not sure what exactly.

I also noticed a planning application for an amendment went in recently. So it may be that things are going to start getting built soon.

 

[Johnlj1234]

This morning they were replacing the fencing on Herne Hill Road side.

 

[Ryan2468]

There's always a security presence of some sort on that site as I think they've had travellers there a couple of times.

 

[teuchter]

The hoarding has been replaced but also a portion of the site, alongside the main railway viaduct, has been cleared.

 

[teuchter]

Work definitely starting for real now. I gather they did their breaking ground ceremony the other day.

 

[CH1]

There is a fulsome eulogy to the late recently departed Lord Kerslake in Inside Housing

Peabody chair and former civil service head Lord Kerslake dies aged 68

Peabody has paid tribute to its chair Lord Kerslake, a champion of local government and former head of the civil service, who died over the weekend after “a short battle” with cancer

www.insidehousing.co.uk

No point in me complaining to HIM about the monstrous carbuncle rising above the roof of the former grain store corner of Coldharbour Lane and Shakespeare Road.
There is marketing material on the net - but is seems barely developed. Like it quote the figure of 130 in both the shared ownership and the outright sale bits.
The planning permission says 134 BTW.
If the tower is offices it will be in direct competition with the Hondo Tower (should that see the light of day).
Will try to remember to append photos. The construction is particularly nauseating from platform 2 of Loughborough Junction station.

 

[ChrisSouth]

There is a fulsome eulogy to the late recently departed Lord Kerslake in Inside Housing

Peabody chair and former civil service head Lord Kerslake dies aged 68

Peabody has paid tribute to its chair Lord Kerslake, a champion of local government and former head of the civil service, who died over the weekend after “a short battle” with cancer

www.insidehousing.co.uk

No point in me complaining to HIM about the monstrous carbuncle rising above the roof of the former grain store corner of Coldharbour Lane and Shakespeare Road.
There is marketing material on the net - but is seems barely developed. Like it quote the figure of 130 in both the shared ownership and the outright sale bits.
The planning permission says 134 BTW.
If the tower is offices it will be in direct competition with the Hondo Tower (should that see the light of day).
Will try to remember to append photos. The construction is particularly nauseating from platform 2 of Loughborough Junction station.

Coldharbour Lane and Herne Hill Road, surely ?

 

[teuchter]

It's quite visible looming over the old grain store, on the junction with Shakespeare Rd, when you approach LJ along coldharbour lane from the west.
In the winter with the tree foliage gone it'll be even more so.

 

[CH1]

Coldharbour Lane and Herne Hill Road, surely ?

When I wrote this I said rising out of the roof of 245 Coldharbour Lane, which is exactly what I meant. If you look carefully it actually says Shakespeare Road on the wall!
Look here mate!


And here is the view from Loughborough Junction Platform 2


And for good measure just look at how the streetscape is f*cked. A bit like New York or Philadelphia perhaps - row houses hemmed in by a carbuncle!

 

[teuchter]

This is now de facto Lambeth planning policy I'm afraid: this kind of complete mismatch of scale is deemed acceptable.

Be prepared for more of it.

 

[Tulster218]

This is now de facto Lambeth planning policy I'm afraid: this kind of complete mismatch of scale is deemed acceptable.

Be prepared for more of it.

Once it's built, the next ones will match the existing scale.

 

[teuchter]

Here's how it looks now from the Camberwell direction.

 

[CH1]

Here's how it looks now from the Camberwell direction.

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Dreadful. Funnily enough AFAIK that side isn't a conservation area though - unlike my views from Conservation area no 27 - Loughborough Park. But then me complaining about interfering with the views in a conservation area is rather like what was said about the proposed Cressingham Gardens (re)development. Cressingham seems to have stalled over lack of money and council officers rather than aesthetics though.

 

[ChrisSouth]

Here's how it looks now from the Camberwell direction.

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It looks equally impressive from the top of Ruskin Park

 

[Gramsci]

From my bit of CHL, now scaffolding is coming down, I don't know how planners thought this would have negligible effect on the mainly Victorian low level street scale.

It would not matter so much if it was outstanding design. But it's just big standard cram them in London design.

 

[Gramsci]

Btw the amenity space is minimal. As developers say they public garden space in area means they didn't have to give more than the measly amount they are required by planning. And this from a so called social housing provider.

 

[editor]

One bedroom flat starts at £460,000. Curious why access to Farringdon is seen as a stand-out marketing reference.

 

[teuchter]

Farringdon gets you into the city/Clerkenwell and connects with the tube but is also the interchange for the Elizabeth Line. The Thameslink/Elizabeth Line combination is now a rather handy one, starting from LJ. You can get to a lot of places quite quickly.

Personally I'd highlight Blackfriars as the central London station because it's (at least in the summer) always a pleasure to arrive/wait there, and means the south bank is within 10 minutes reach.

 

[ChrisSouth]

Farringdon gets you into the city/Clerkenwell and connects with the tube but is also the interchange for the Elizabeth Line. The Thameslink/Elizabeth Line combination is now a rather handy one, starting from LJ. You can get to a lot of places quite quickly.

Personally I'd highlight Blackfriars as the central London station because it's (at least in the summer) always a pleasure to arrive/wait there, and means the south bank is within 10 minutes reach.a

Farringdon gets you into the city/Clerkenwell and connects with the tube but is also the interchange for the Elizabeth Line. The Thameslink/Elizabeth Line combination is now a rather handy one, starting from LJ. You can get to a lot of places quite quickly.

Personally I'd highlight Blackfriars as the central London station because it's (at least in the summer) always a pleasure to arrive/wait there, and means the south bank is within 10 minutes reach.

Agree regarding Farringdon. It's the Elizabeth Line which has transformed East-West travel, particularly for the Thameslink line and specifically LJ. Timed right, you can get from west end/Soho to LJ in under half an hour and an hour to Heathrow.

 

[editor]

Agree regarding Farringdon. It' the Elizabeth Line which has transformed East-West travel, particularly for the Thameslink line and specifically LJ. Timed right, you can get from west end/Soho to LJ in under half an hour and an hour to Heathrow.

Assuming you can get on the train in rush hour, and you're not in a wheelchair or with a pram.

 

[ChrisSouth]

Assuming you can get on the train in rush hour, and you're not in a wheelchair or with a pram.

I've also assumed that there's no industrial action, that it's not a bank holiday service, that it's not a Christmas Day service of no trains, that the persona passenger doesn't have a dog on a lead and that there are no delays. But taking out all those assumptions, the timings stand up under scrutiny.

 

[editor]

I've also assumed that there's no industrial action, that it's not a bank holiday service, that it's not a Christmas Day service of no trains, that the persona passenger doesn't have a dog on a lead and that there are no delays. But taking out all those assumptions, the timings stand up under scrutiny.

The developers should have been compelled to pay for improvements to the station if they're going to advertise it as some sort of dream location for commuters.

 

[goldengraham]

Curious to ask the Higgs Yard estate people to explain how it is possible to get from LJ to Vauxhall station in 5 mins, as the purple hoardings on Herne Hill Road literally claim

 

[editor]

Curious to ask the Higgs Yard estate people to explain how it is possible to get from LJ to Vauxhall station in 5 mins, as the purple hoardings on Herne Hill Road literally claim

Could you grab a pic if possible please?

 

[teuchter]

Curious to ask the Higgs Yard estate people to explain how it is possible to get from LJ to Vauxhall station in 5 mins, as the purple hoardings on Herne Hill Road literally claim

I wonder if someone has done an inadvertent copy&paste from the marketing for another site...

 

[freshapple]

Curious to ask the Higgs Yard estate people to explain how it is possible to get from LJ to Vauxhall station in 5 mins, as the purple hoardings on Herne Hill Road literally claim

Helicopter?

 

[goldengraham]

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

City views?

Just look down?

 

[CH1]

Why do Peabody even pretend to be a social housing provider?
This popped up on my Facebook just now

The Auria - Apartments For Sale London | Notting Hill | Peabody New Homes

www.peabodynewhomes.co.uk

Page 3 is where the real action is (as you might expect!) - £1,680,000 per 2 bed apartment.
If George Peabody is looking down of us now he probably wishes he spent his money relieving poverty in the USA!

George Peabody - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org