What we said at the presentation DC meeting on the 14th of October 2015
Planning application 14/13247 ( Sept 2015 )
So we are back again. Scheme number 3.
The tower is redesigned and lower. That may be less bad than before.
But when you look at the model in front of you, and imagine walking around the site:
You could be forgiven for asking what apart from the tallest tower, is different?
Most of this scheme is indistinguishable from the last.
That is because this is in reality - just another iteration of the same flawed scheme.
Lets stop talking about comparisons. We are here to oppose this scheme, for much the same reasons we gave you last time.
We have not planned anything grand today. The 250 residents who over-filled this place in June, what we said; the sun-shade simulation: That is all on record. You know how we feel:
Today we have 7 speakers to make these 7 points:
The tower is redesigned and lower. That may be less bad than before.
But when you look at the model in front of you, and imagine walking around the site:
You could be forgiven for asking what apart from the tallest tower, is different?
Most of this scheme is indistinguishable from the last.
That is because this is in reality - just another iteration of the same flawed scheme.
Lets stop talking about comparisons. We are here to oppose this scheme, for much the same reasons we gave you last time.
We have not planned anything grand today. The 250 residents who over-filled this place in June, what we said; the sun-shade simulation: That is all on record. You know how we feel:
- That the proposal would over-develop this sensitive site with a monolith of towers, generic and brutal in appearance, causing irreversible damage to our heritage, identity and sense of place.
- That we must remain resolute on this the first of many Eden Quarter sites coming forward. The damage to precedent can not be undone.
- That we have more than just rhetoric: we have researched this and have sound and substantial reasons to back a REFUSAL - should you be minded to refuse, as we hope you will.
Today we have 7 speakers to make these 7 points:
