Planning app for the redevelopment of Haggerston baths submitted just after the lockdown. Does this mean that enough people in the neighbourhood will get chance to really examine plans for a six-story 24-hr office block in the heart of a residential area?
https://t.co/dCUjC29HuK
Developing the baths is one thing (though having a swimming pool would have been nice), the problem is the seven-storey 24 hr office block the developers are building to take up almost half the site. It's too close too residencies.
@mayorofhackney@LovingDalston@hackneycouncil Community access/use of the baths also seems to have dwindled and now amounts to a bookable venue space at a small discount. Handing community assets to a hedge fund backed property developer who is only interested in profit hardly seems fitting in this instance.
@mayorofhackney@LovingDalston@hackneycouncil I'm aware the design has 2 extra floors and roof terrace that was not on the winning bid. No one is expecting the baths to reopen for swimming but a design that doesn't remove light and privacy and re-introduces traffic to a pedestrianised residential neighbourhood would be good.
Somehow, @Hackneycouncil chose the shoddiest of applicants to develop Haggy Baths — which should anyway have been preserved by restoration and reopening
@mayorofhackney@LovingDalston@hackneycouncil The quiet residential walkway where you are standing (2015) Mr Mayor, is about to be overshadowed by an office block taller than the old Baths chimney. Many residents will lose almost all sunlight; with a 24hr entrance for 800+ office workers on Swimmers Lane, their privacy too.
Dear taxi drivers. Would you like to go to a restaurant where the waiter makes it clear he’s in a bad mood and spends your whole meal moaning about how much he gets paid. No obvs. Why do you think I want to hear about your gripes with @Uber then?