| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Watermans Park Community Design vs Council Marina Proposal IN A NUTSHELL | |
| Posted by: | Stephen Alexander | |
| Date/Time: | 30/04/16 09:54:00 |
| Yes you are right I have possibly overstated my point. But lets have a closer look at the plans going forward. 1. The Sequestration of Park Land to give to Private boat Owners for their Car park. Public land into private pockets? Who will this benefit? The wealthy new boat owners. Not the public who use the Park every day. The area in question here is now a very quiet and peaceful corner of the park where many people sit and think/meditate away from the noise of traffic etc.. This will be gone if the plans are accepted. 2. Stop Bikes and Wheelchairs cycling from one end of the park to the other. This Park contrary to the Planning document is not a circulatory Park but a thoroughfare. Most people using it traverse from one end to the other. I have watched it, I know this is the case with 80% of users. 3. To back-fill in a significant part to the Park, almost to the road level, destroying one of the park’s best features of being much lower than one of the busiest roads in Brentfod. This is designed to create a convenient access for the Travelodge visitors primarily. It serves very little other purpose. Consider the works that will be involved in a landfill operation on such a scale. 4. To evict a long standing community, many of which will need rehousing in a borough which has one of the worst homeless problems costing the Council yet more money. The purpose here is to attract millionaire boat owners. In spite of lip service, none of the current community will have a chance to remain. With all the new building of apartments Tell me how it is that the availability of affordable housing in the Borough is falling short year after year. 5. To move and reduce the Children’s Play Area by 40%. Consider the unnecessary works this will involve. A perfectly designed playground for children is well designed and enjoyed as it stands. What a waste of money. 6. Make the Park a Building Site for Years. Coupled with the inevitable road widening scheme which will overhang the Park and the inevitable retail that will follow, the Park I suspect is destined to become no more than a garden area for the new moorings. 7. The removal of trees in the Park. It is clear that most of the existing trees, some of which are now mature are to be cut down in the current proposals. Yes this implies a total re landscape of the Park. 8. The over engineered Proposal for moorings is catastrophic to state it mildly. This will be, if successful, an unimaginable ecological disaster. The project requires the driving of more than 900 piles into a toxic River bed. The wildlife now thriving in the area will be significantly culled by the toxins released. Not to mention the danger to human health of the people who canoe or skull or fish along the River. The emphasis with this plan by the Council is clearly ideological. A gentrification generating, private profit and revenue streams. Not Community, people or public amenity for local people. I say shame on the Labour Council. We will in ten years probably revisit what has happened to this Park. My guess is that it will be gone, as we know and love it. We will think back with regret and wonder how we let this happen. This is why I urge all concerned to look at the brilliant alternative being offered at www.watermansparkmoorings.co.uk |