| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Putney development, high-rise and localism | |
| Posted by: | Sarah Roberts | |
| Date/Time: | 02/06/12 00:39:00 |
| In 2008 a company called Oracle proposed a 23 storey building, Putney Place, opposite East Putney tube station. "The Leaning Tower of Putney" was a design by so-called 'leading architect' Will Allsop. Residents led by the Putney Society had their biggest meeting of over 200 people. Together they shouted down the proposal at a public consultation. They were told by the developer, "You will come to like it". Thankfully this most inappropriate, epically deplorable design concepts died when Oracle went bust. www.e-architect.co.uk/london/putney_place.htm So Oracle goes bust. But in February 2009 four of the directors of Oracle form Essential Land and by mid 2010 our very own Nick Cuff decides that Essential Land is just the sort of dynamic organisation he would like to join. He leaves CB Richard Ellis to join Essential Land. So today's Chairman of Wandsworth Council's Planning Applications Committee is now part of the same team who were in part responsible for the utterly disgraceful attempt to foist a 25 storey building on your historic Putney soon to be AKA Croydon-on-Thames. Of course Nick has to go to Wales in September. He must spread the gospel of WBC. He must evangelise how Wandsworth is a paradise for developers: "In Wandsworth we insist on thorough pre-application consultation...it makes a real difference to the quality of proposals." |