Bacton Low Rise - to be Tower Blocks?
■ Anvil, the developer for this site, has produced a new preliminary document for Camden’s consideration.
■ All previous plans have been torn up. This new report largely contains repetitive background information, first published in 2017.
■ Camden and Anvil want to dump the original plans to build low-rise homes fin favour of tower blocks. The new plans are for 460 flats in a 23-story tower. Only 30% of these will be affordable. You can read the full report here https://camden.team/Bacton
■ One thing is certain, nothing will be built until 2030. So much for ‘tackling the housing crisis’
■ That’s 13 years since the previous flats were demolished. This has meant fewer local homes and has left local schools devoid of pupils. As a result, Camden Labour have closed two of our local schools.
■ The original scheme was for 281 homes of which 104 were to be socially rented flats. This is an entirely different scheme and at what cost to our area? Why does Camden Labour keep trashing Gospel Oak?
Cllr Steve Adams is writing to all local residents to ask them what they think about these proposals. You can tell us your views via CamdenTeams/Bacton
‘Grotification,’ not regeneration or gentrification.
A letter to the Camden New Journal recently described what is happening to our area as ‘Grotification,’ not regeneration or gentrification.
Camden ignores our needs as our neighbourhood continues to decay. The residents letter highlighted the frustration many feel about our area.
■ Over £6.5 million has gone to waste on consultations that have shown no results or improvement. They continue to fight against the will of their own residents.
■ Fly-tipping and rubbish lie uncleared.
■ They have closed three community centres, two schools and two nurseries.
■ Councillors refuse to even show up for meetings on new developments on housing in the Bacton Low Rise site. One councillor argued the meeting was for people opposed to better homes for people.
■ Running down Queen’s Crescent Market to be a shadow of its former self.
■ They have forgotten that there were over 100 council rent voids locally.
As Gospel Oak becomes unrecognisable, the Council refuses to listen or represent the residents in need.
