| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:13 storeys for Capsticks and Carlton Court | |
| Posted by: | Adam Bailey | |
| Date/Time: | 07/01/11 12:48:00 |
| thanks Patricia, if anyone is interested I wrote to Simon Lewis as follows: Dear Simon Some feedback about this development as you have been kind enough to ask and hold a public exhibition. I live in Espirit House, a residential block which is next to the Swi5h building and my roof terrace faces the Capsticks building. In summary: Positive • Glad the ugly Capsticks building is being re-developed as it’s an eyesore • Proposal has a great design • Like the plaza area • Like the proposed new Waitrose Negative • Extra strain on tube and train which are already at full capacity • Improving local infrastructure – all laudable ideas, but it is a study which means I have zero confidence anything will come out of it other than a pretty booklet. • Camera views are very misleading – to me they seem deliberately designed to misrepresent the height. Camera view 3 makes it look like the proposal is same height as Swi5h, Camera view 1 makes it look the same height as the 7 storey office 85-99 URR. • I would accept all of the above and support the project were it not for the main objection – the height! Too tall for the locale, will create too match shade on URR, will overlook my property and invade the privacy of my roof terrace In summary 13 storeys is still too high, ideally I would like it to be the same height as the Capsticks building but would accept a proposal that was 2 storeys higher. Therefore I will be objecting again. I understand and accept the developer’s main concern is profit maximization. They will always use the tactic of proposing something way too high and then try to reduce as little as possible until it gets accepted. Just how high does this site need to be to be commercially viable for a developer? |