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Post by NigelMoore on Sept 8, 2017 13:22:08 GMT
Latest news [with artist impressions] – www.brentfordtw8.com/default.asp?section=info&page=plwatermans005.htm “ Two separate planning applications have been submitted for the joint proposals to relocate Watermans Arts Centre from its current location to a new position on the old police station in Half Acre (pictured above looking north from outside Goddards).
Flats will be built on both the old police station site and the current Watermans and Max Factor buildings as part of a project that will see approximately 300 flats being built across both sites.
The police station and section house (P/2017/3371) will be demolished and replaced with 105 new homes (including 30 affordable homes) and a replacement Watermans Arts Centre of 2,776m2, approximately equivalent to the current arts centre. There will be two on-street disabled parking spaces with a drop-off point at Back Lane but otherwise no parking. The building will be up to seven storeys high.
Albany Riverside (P/2017/3372) covers the Watermans Arts Centre and Max Factor building. Both of these will be demolished and replaced with 193 flats arranged over three blocks. It will be 8 storeys high from the high street and nine from the river, losing 15 homes from the previous design. There will be 33 car parking spaces.”
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 13:29:16 GMT
The madness continues. I wonder how many of these will be owned by UK residents. Lot of the flats around east London seem to just be air bnb short let flats rather than places for people to live.
Brentford is a bit far out so might be a bit more residential I suppose. Still massive changes and probably to the detriment of the existing community.
Never mind. Money talks etc etc
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 8, 2017 13:38:08 GMT
The police station and section house (P/2017/3371) will be demolished and replaced with 105 new homes (including 30 affordable homes) This seems to imply that 75 of the homes will be unaffordable. Is "affordable" a euphemism for "council" or something?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2017 13:49:49 GMT
Its not council its flats which are deemed to be affordable to people on the average local income (in work) rather than affordable to wealthy foreign investors or land bank companies.
For example in London E14 you usually need to have an income of something like £50k pa to be able to afford an affordable two bedroom flat (usually shared ownership). If you are able to buy outright but have no earnings you are probably not eligible to purchase.
Its all bollocks but there is some sort of legal requirement to provide some "affordable" flats in most new build blocks.
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